[aosd-discuss] AOP patent

[Rickard Öberg]

Hi!

Just curious, are you all aware of that "AOP" (and, it seems, all that 
it implies) is patented by Kiczales et. al?

Does this mean that all of us doing AOP-tools will have to call it 
something else?

What's the idea here, really?

/Rickard

ps. 
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/%20srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,467,086.WKU.&OS=PN/6,467,086&RS=PN/%206,467,086