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RE: Re: Oops, it's patented

• From: paulo.gaspar@k...
• To: xml-dev@x...
• Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 17:36:13 -0700

Yeah... This is patethic!

Patents are supposed to protect investment but they are
being overused by oportunists.

Sometimes it looks as it is no longer a way to get return
on investment in sophisticated stuff.

In the software industry, it looks more like a way of
getting money on obvious things that everybody will want 
to do by being the first non ethical entity running to the
pattent office.

(I am not even going to start talking on the movie, music
or pharmaceutic industries.)

--- Original Message ---
"Clark C. Evans" <cce@c...> Wrote on 
Sat, 27 May 2000 19:35:50 -0400 (EDT)
 ------------------ 
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Richard Tobin wrote:
> Is this just a joke, or are these guys really trying to patent
using a
> schema to give a choice of legal elements in an editor?

It does look like they are trying to patent it.  Humorous isn't
it?

>  The XML editor in Visual Markup employs our patent-pending
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This just means that they submitted a "preliminary patent" or
a "patent application".  The PTO has yet to review it...

I really hope that the PTO would be smart enough to 
see that there is both prior art for this and also
that the technique is obvious.  You never know!

Clark



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