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[^] # Re: Guide pour s'impliquer dans le développement en FRANÇAIS
Posté par Benoît Sibaud (site web personnel) . En réponse à la dépêche Wormux a besoin de vous et de vos compétences. Évalué à 7.
« We were able to search the patent databases of the USA, Canada, Japan, and the European Union. The Unisys patent expired on 20 June 2003 in the USA, in Europe it expired on 18 June 2004, in Japan patent expired on 20 June 2004 and in Canada it expired on 7 July 2004. The U.S. IBM patent expires 11 August 2006, (we are still searching the databases of other countries). »