W3C Requests Eolas Patent Re-Examination

x0n writes "Verbatim from W3: Acting on the advice of the W3C HTML Patent Advisory Group, W3C has presented the United States Patent and Trademark Office with prior art establishing that US Patent No. 5,838,906 (the '906 patent) is invalid. W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee has written an unprecedented request to U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property James E. Rogan to take action to remove the patent to allow operation of the Web. Read the briefing." techsoldaten adds a link to this New York Times story on the move, and bgalbs points out the W3C's detailed filing describing prior art provided to the USPTO Director's office, "along with a letter from Tim Berners-Lee asking that the so-called Eolas patent be revoked," writing "Here's hoping it does some good; between this and the Lotus Notes prior art, perhaps there's hope this will all go away."

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[mcpkaaos]

Pardon my language, but yours is the most polished piece of shit post I've read in a long, long time. What kind of sad, dreary life would brand a geek website a partisan politics? Your words make you sound terribly paranoid, nothing more. This website is mostly a sounding board for one-liners, "I'm smarter than you" arguments, and notices of various inventions, innovative or not. It's your typical, average, run-of-the-mill geek site, and I love this place for it. We're all retarded here, equally so, and it's a great time. Though I fail to see any political value here, for either "side", as you see it.

Yes, it should come as no surprise that Slashdot is often just a political statement. A very leftist one.

I hate to break this to you, but Slashdot is about as capable of projecting a political statement as our political system is at regulating technology. (The exact calculations of said ridiculous statement are left(ist?) as an exercise for the reader.)

Now if you'll excuse me, I must take leave to go picket the bus driving grocery store clerks drivers and lobby local government to have my way. Burn the witches!