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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. Four Words by flewp · · Score: 1, Funny

    Me. It was me.

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    WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
  2. Re:Mine! by flewp · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunatly, I already have prior art on posting to slashdot claiming I had prior art as you will notice my post is above yours.

    Pay up.

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    WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
  3. Re:Shows the importance of publicity by dcordeiro · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...even the most famous tech god is only an email away.
    How did you get my email?

  4. Eolas...i hated that elf too by FictionPimp · · Score: 4, Funny

    oh wait...were not talking about LoTR... *smacks self* software not fantasy...

  5. I patented everything! by erroneus · · Score: 0, Funny

    I submitted the following:

    A thing or process which may or may not do anything useful or anything in particular.

    The patent is pending...

    1. Re:I patented everything! by maxwell+demon · · Score: 4, Funny

      This will be rejected because of too little obfuscation. Better try:

      A thing or process, that, either by explicit activation or automatically, performs with a probability less or equal to one, any intended or unintended action, covering a range of usefulnesses from zero to absolutely, where action is meant to include the trivial action, i.e. not changing its own state or the state of the environment at all nor hindering its own state or the state of its environment to change.

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      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
  6. If I hadn't stopped and ... by burgburgburg · · Score: 2, Funny
    followed the link to "read the story" and "know what I was writing about" I'd have been the first.

    This is /. What was I thinking?!?!

  7. I know I am late... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... but it sounds as if he is patenting html. you click on a link and it executes code on the server which sends information back to the client to interact with. (ie you click on a link and the server sends you another web page to interact with(to click on more links))... looks like the US Patent office web page is patented... :)

  8. Ally McBeal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Anyone remember the Ally McBeal episode where Fish and Ling have sex for the first time? She makes him sign documents prior to the act since some of her techniques were patented.

  9. Re:I think... by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    " Can't have a thread without conspiracy, can we? "

    Here on Slashdot? No. I think you agree to something like that when you register.

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    "Derp de derp."
  10. got ya beat Re:I patented everything! by swschrad · · Score: 2, Funny

    A Variety of Stuff.

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    if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
  11. Re:Here's the patent number by RdsArts · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's simple.

    1) Design machine.
    2) ???
    3) Prophet. ... I feel so dirty.

  12. Re:I find the patent by Jerry · · Score: 2, Funny
    This is the Eolas text. Who thinks such a thing novel?


    The same examiners who thought that 'one-click shopping' envolved a great leap forward in technology and/or business practices.

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    Running with Linux for over 20 years!