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Whose Prior Art Filing Triggered Eolas Reexam?

Posted by timothy on from the mysterious-ways dept.

theodp writes "The Eolas patent case history shows another prior art filing was quietly made ten days before the widely-publicized W3C filing and two weeks before Tim Berner-Lee's reexam request. Now Ray Ozzie speculates the earlier filing was one being floated at the time that was jointly signed by a number of other parties who supported W3C member Dave Raggett's prior art, which Microsoft unsuccessfully tried to use in the $521 million Eolas lawsuit. Ozzie also notes that those involved argued for all to stand solidly behind the Raggett prior art and not cite anything else. So who are these other parties, and was it their filing and lobbying that triggered the Eolas reexam?"

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  1. Re:What this is all about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    News for Nerds.

  2. Re:Another Harpy dives on Al Gore's corpse by larry+bagina · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    "took the initiative in creating"? bullshit.


    Linus Torvalds wanted a terminal emulator, so he wrote one, then turned it into a full kernel. That is initiative.


    Richard Stallman wanted a FREE c compiler, so he wrote one. That took initiaztive.


    Al Gore (and a couple hundred other people) voted to spend other people's money, not knowing where most of it was going, only concerned about what pork they were bringing back home.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  3. Re:Another Harpy dives on Al Gore's corpse by tiger99 · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    The internet and the web came into being without any direct help from the low life forms known as politicians, lawyers or bankers.

    It came into being because people wanted to cooperate and share information. None of these people would ever do such a thing.

    The politicians may have allocated budgets in general terms, but would not have had a clue about how the money was being used. No beaurocracy can ever be creative. It took a long list of innovators to make it happen. Had it been a political decision, they would still be debating it now, and it would not happen. Things like the internet put politicians at risk......

    I will give Al Gore credit for one thing, he invented a new lie, which makes him almost equal with a certain obnoxious spolit brat who invented a new way of creating an Illegal Monopoly. He did not invent the internet, or anything else either.

    I think I need to get Darl McBride ito this as well, but can't think of any of his real or imaginary achievements right now.