Former Activerse CTO Responds to ActiveBuddy Patent

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 15, 2002 @07:59AM from the patent-depth-charge dept.

JeffBone writes: "I was the CTO of a company back in 1997-1999 (Activerse, mentioned in the comments on the original article) that made a bot development kit in many ways similar to ActiveBuddy's product. This is clear prior art, dating back well over two years before to the initial ActiveBuddy filing. I'd be happy to help out anybody seeking to overturn this patent. Some additional comments on this can be found at oreillynet.com." You might not agree with Bone about software patents in general, but he has an interesting perspective on this one.

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Another article by Anonymous Coward · 2002-08-15 11:16 · Score: 1, Informative

This article has a whole bunch of people declaring prior art.

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php /1 446781
Re:Front page this so he can get help by Fat+Casper · 2002-08-15 14:35 · Score: 3, Informative

Not enough people read YRO articles, please frontpage this for great justice !!
If they cared, they'd find it. I don't think he needs help; he's offering it. You're right- not enough people read YRO articles.

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