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Re: United States Patent: 6,880,125

• To: Ryan Tomayko <rtomayko@g...>
• Subject: Re: United States Patent: 6,880,125
• From: sterling <sstouden@t...>
• Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:43:21 -0500 (CDT)
• Cc: Bob Foster <bob@o...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <2552dff117b6d433837f8dd19fcc1c43@g...>

Patents are the death of further invention?

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Ryan Tomayko wrote:

> On Apr 13, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Bob Foster wrote:
> > Ryan Tomayko wrote:
> >> <http://tinyurl.com/54f52>
> >> United States Patent: 6,880,125
> >> System and method for XML parsing
> 
> > There are push and pull variant APIs for *all* event-driven processes 
> > and any push variant is trivially converted to pull by multi-threading 
> > or coroutines. This fact has been exploited in communications since 
> > God was a boy.
> 
> Maybe the patent office needs some faith based initiative?
> 
> > Talk about obvious to the expert practitioner!
> 
> Ha!
> 
> > (Don't think much of the developers who did the web pages that don't 
> > show you the images of the patent application, either.)
> 
> But the "Add to Cart" button is a nice touch.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
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