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Title: Is this patent a threat to the QR code function in Bitcoin client? Post by: burger on July 23, 2012, 09:58:18 PM Is this patent a threat to the QR code function in the Bitcoin client and other alternative clients?
http://ricrichardson.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/revised-executable-qr-code-provisional.html (http://ricrichardson.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/revised-executable-qr-code-provisional.html) Title: Re: Is this patent a threat to the QR code function in Bitcoin client? Post by: BitPay Business Solutions on July 23, 2012, 10:01:08 PM It looks way too broad. Anyone using it for bitcoins prior to his filing date would be grandfathered in anyway.
Title: Re: Is this patent a threat to the QR code function in Bitcoin client? Post by: Foxpup on July 24, 2012, 07:24:48 AM This patent is for executable QR codes, ie, actual byte-code instructions encoded in a QR code. This doesn't affect Bitcoin or anything else using QR codes for URIs or IDs or any other kind of non-executable data.
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