[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Prior Art For Microsoft's XUL Patent Wanted
Do a web Search on US Navy MID and ISO ISMID. Because some of those were posted here just recently in conversations with you, I have to assume you don't bother to look outside your own boat until it is sinking. This one is easy. The MID work was started in 1993, with working prototypes and everything. We probably should have patented it then but we didn't believe in it and it was US Navy work. MS may have a bogus patent. They know that because information about MID has been posted to their online blog sites. Because Paoli works for MS and was aware of MID while working at Grif, and there were public presentations made at which Microsoft employees were present, they can't claim not having prior knowledge. It was too well known in the SGML community and the DoD (both sides of the ponds) communities. There were even articles published out of Mantech about doing MID with HTML. Hytime saved your bacon. The MID work predates both XUL and XAML by a good six years. len From: Gerald Bauer [mailto:luxorxul@y...] If you missed the news the United States Patent and Trademark Office (uspto.gov) just granted Microsoft a patent on XUL. See the XUL News Wire Story @ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.xul.announce/187 for details. Now here's my first reaction: For once it has its benefits that the Mozilla folks haven't touched their XUL docs for ages and are frozen in time. For example, Microsoft filed its XUL patent on May 20, 1999 disclosing its "invention" to the world. Now David Hyatt touched up the chrome configuration spec the last time on April 7, 1999. See yourself online @ http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/ConfigChromeSpec.html Anyone knows about other links to prior art? - Gerald ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
|
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|