RE: 3V's "numerous patents"
Gavin Thomas Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 03:36:21 -0400
> More importantly, please see http://www.thirdvoice.com/copyright.htm.
> I'm most concerned by the mention of "numerous patents pending".
> Does this bother any of you as much as it does me? Do you have
> any ideas on how to make sure they don't happen to patent something
> as general as third-party Web annotation?
Prior art. Lot's of it in the hypermedia arena, and webcosm and
also IBM did web-based annotations. I think I have a talk I gave
in Tokyo from around 1994 that mentions the idea too.