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RE: Small company makes big claims on XML patents

• To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• Subject: RE: Small company makes big claims on XML patents
• From: sterling <sstouden@t...>
• Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:17:42 -0500 (CDT)
• Cc: "'Bullard, Claude L (Len)'" <len.bullard@i...>, <ian.graham@u...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <200510212028.j9LKSXiI020926@d...>

I am sorry but the word "computer" is copyrighted and the machine that 
replaces the computer is covered in Mayian Patent and Copyright 
no. 1004343434-009.  It was filed some 12,500 years ago on the night of 
the silvery moon in the great temple hdfidfdaa located in zomadfadf land.  
There was an international treaty in place between the maya and the 
Egyptians so its still valid.  It comes up for renewal in another 40,000 
years. 
  
The patent was filed in haste.  The original docs were authenticated by 
the seal of the sun goddess sueforit. Noone has seen the documents in 
the past several thousand years, but they can be retieved by the majic 
of queen infringement as soon as some small company tries to use the 
patented idea and the copyrighted code to aggressively compete.   

If that should fail, the congress will retroactively enact suitable 
legislation to be sure that no small fry corporaton can earn any 
profits because profits are the exclusive property of those who 
pay their lobbists.
me

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Michael Kay wrote:

> Given that a "computer" used to mean a person who did calculations, I think
> there is prior art in the way the Egyptians organised the payment of workers
> 7000 years ago.
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:len.bullard@i...] 
> > Sent: 21 October 2005 22:31
> > To: 'ian.graham@u...'; xml-dev@l...
> > Subject: RE:  Small company makes big claims on XML patents
> > 
> > Heck, we might as well enjoy this.  A fellow posted the 
> > first essential claim on cNet.  Here it is.  The game 
> > here is to play patent reviewer and given prior art 
> > you approve, review these claims.
> > 
> > We should carry this over to XML 2005 as such claims 
> > actually do influence town hall discussions such as 
> > <shamelessPlug>XML Document formats</shamelessPlug>.
> > 
> > I suspect that gencode systems (circa 1967-69) alone can 
> > beat most of these but be careful because these guys 
> > claimed more than XML actually does.
> > 
> > The claims are:
> > 
> > 1. A method of organizing and storing a set of information in 
> > neutral form
> > in a computer based environment comprising the steps of:
> > 
> > a) organizing the set of information into instance data sets;
> > 
> > b) defining a time basis for the collection of instance data sets;
> > 
> > c) organizing each instance data set into an instance cluster 
> > comprised of
> > data instance nodes;
> > 
> > d) assigning to each data instance node in an instance cluster a
> > distinguishing structural tag comprising the following three 
> > components:
> > 
> > a data reference;
> > 
> > a data type;
> > 
> > a data organization;
> > 
> > e) defining the components of the structural tag for each 
> > data value in each
> > instance cluster;
> > 
> > f) assigning properties of the data value to each structural tag;
> > 
> > g) storing the names of all of the structural tag elements 
> > together with
> > their respective definitions and properties in a suitable format;
> > 
> > h) combining each data value and its respective structural 
> > tag to form a
> > neutral form expression of the data; and
> > 
> > i) storing the resultant neutral form expression of the data value.
> > 
> > Let the game begin.
> > 
> > len
> > 
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