On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 10:56:01AM -0500, TOKILEY@aol.com wrote:
> > Do you have any links for these patents?
>
> There are tons of them.
(thanks)
> Probably the killer method patent is #5327529
> owned by GeoWorks.
I looked at
http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?&pn=US05327529__&s_drwd=1#drwd
It is entitled ``US5327529: Process of designing user's interfaces for
application programs'' and seems to have no relation to http at all.
> It basically applies to all content re-formatting and even actually
> applies to HTML itself if they win a current court case about 'when'
> the patent was issued.
This seems like some kind of black comedy. The patent declarations
seem to describe obvious concepts in the most obfuscatory language
possible.
> You can click on GeoWorks link in that article and go to their home
> page and then click on 'Intellectual Property' in the left side-bar
> which take you to this page...
> http://www.geoworks.com/technology/ipr/index.html
> which talks about their 'right' to enforce the patent(s).
OK, I can see the connection having read their site. But surely
there's prior art in generic UI markup languages from the 80s, like
IBM's Dialog Manager?
I see in
http://www.remotecommunications.com/website/html/HyperSpace.htm
that RemoteCommunications claims three patents for your HyperSpace
product. Do you have references for them?
> > Perhaps we can do a BOF session on these topics?
>
> Perhaps... tell me what a 'BOF session' is and what that means.
Boring Old Fart session. ;-) (No, Birds of a Feather. Is anyone
scheduling them, or are they ad-hoc?)
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