From: Jim Whitehead (ejw@ics.uci.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 20 2000 - 15:50:41 PDT
Hmm, does prior art matter as much in the British patent system? I seem to
recall reading that they have a "first filed" type system.
Anyway, I hope they pursue this to the utmost of their abilities, since I
can see it only fostering the public's belief that software patents are bad.
Anyway, Douglas Engelbart's NLS system, dating from the mid-60's, should
provide sufficient prior art on this one: http://www.bootstrap.org/
- Jim
> Last week its lawyers sent out letters to the top Internet
> service providers
> in the United States, alerting them they'd best begin discussions for
> licensing the technology, referred to in BT's patent as "an information
> handling system in which information is derived from a computer
> at a remote
> point and transmitted via the public telephone network to terminal
> apparatus." Translated from patent speak, BT explained, that means
> "hyperlink"
> http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37095,00.html
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Jun 20 2000 - 15:57:53 PDT