IBM Patents Web Page Templates

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 16, 2001 @03:05PM from the patent-office-crack dept.

jalefkowit writes: "More follies from the US Patent & Trademark Office ... now IBM has been awarded US Patent #6,304,886 for software that automatically "generates [a] customized Web site without the Web site creator writing any HTML or other programming code", based on "a plurality of pre-stored templates, comprising HTML formatting code, text, fields, and formulas" that are then customized through the process of asking the user a few questions. In other words, they've patented the ubiquitous wizards found in FrontPage and other newbie-oriented HTML editors. This was submitted to the USPTO on June 19, 1998 -- surely someone out there knows of prior art for this?"

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IBM patents Patent Templates by dmon · 2001-10-16 22:08 · Score: 0, Redundant

"IBM has been awarded US Patent #6,666,666 for software that automatically generates [a] customized Patent without any innovation or other brain demanding work, based on a plurality of pre-stored templates (also known as prior art), old patents, text, fields, and formulas that are then customized through the process of asking the user a few questions."