I'm no patent attorney either, but there is a temporal component when it
comes to invalidating patents due to prior art, and Haskell is demonstrably
"very prior" to these claims, even though it's not mentioned there.
Only something that appeared after the patent was filed initially would
potentially constitute infringement, as long as the claims made in the
patent weren't made public by the inventors themselves prior to the filing,
of course.
I guess, Haskell is safe and we live to see another day... :)
Flavio
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 21:51 Saurabh Nanda Also, the wording seems to be sufficiently broad to cause some concern to Haskell & Rust compilers, but the compilation of two programs in two
unrelated languages will probably prevent an infringement. Actually, the teams working on languages like Eta, Kotlin, and Scala
should be really worried about these series of patents and should get
infringement analysis done by an experienced IP lawyer, and/or press for
invalidation of these patents. -- Saurabh. _______________________________________________
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