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USPTO To Reexamine Eolas, SBC Patents

Posted by timothy on from the they-did-it-for-sideways-swinging dept.

theodp writes "The USPTO Director has ordered reexaminations of the infamous Eolas Distributed Hypermedia Method (discussed earlier(1) on Slashdot) and SBC Structured Document Browser (discussed earlier(2) on Slashdot) patents. Maybe this will inspire Tim O'Reilly to get that killer piece of 1-Click prior art off his bookshelf!"

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  1. Re:Hmmmm, other motivations.... by goldspider · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "Not to be entirely cynical but what are the odds that Microsoft had a little bit to do with the review by the USPTO."

    And what if they did? It's a patent that, in all likelihood, never should have been awarded, so it really doesn't matter much to me who got the USPTO to examine it as long as it and bad patents like it are thrown out.

    Seriously people, you have to stop cutting off your nose to spite your face. This is a good thing!

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