Re: Corpora: US company claims patent on common machine translation

Ole Norling-Christensen (olenc@coco.ihi.ku.dk)
Mon, 13 Oct 97 10:30:41 +0100

On Sun, 12 Oct 1997 08:25:45 -0700, Jacques Guy wrote:

>A post appeared the other day on sci.lang and soc.culture.esperanto,
>the import of which ought to be of utmost concern to recipients of this=

>list.
>In short, some tiny US company is claiming patent on a very common
>approach to machine translation. ...

Before becoming seriously alarmed I should like to know whether
>U.S. Patent No. 4,864,503
really exists and is of the wording cited.

And if the lawyers
>Laff, Whitesel, Conte & Saret, Ltd.
>J.R. Halvorsen, Of Counsel

really exist, which is their address?

Yours,

Ole Norling-Christensen, The Society for Danish Language and Literature
The LE-PAROLE Project
Christians Brygge 1, 1
DK-1219 K=F8benhavn K - Denmark
Tel.: +45 3313 8420 - 9662
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