Whose Prior Art Filing Triggered Eolas Reexam?

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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windows == microsoft?

[Major_Small]

IDK, but I think of windows as a type of environment... not microsoft's operating system... the way I think about it, you can open a window using Windows XP, KDE running on Linux, MAC, and other operating systems/GUI's...

just because somebody wanted to name their operating system after the type of interface they use, doesn't give them a right to patent it... that would be like me calling my operating system "menus" and having a completely menu-driven interface, then claiming that the name is my idea and I should have sole rights to it...

now watch microsoft come out with Microsoft Menus Server 2096... hey, rolls off the toung better than Microsoft Windows...

oops...

[Major_Small]

this was supposed to go in the lindows vs. microsoft thread... don't know how I got here...

Another Harpy dives on Al Gore's corpse

[mefus]

probably Al Gore, since he Invented the Internet

Well, he certainly took the initiative in creating the Internet, but if he said he invented it he'd be somewhat less than honest, IMHO. Did he say that?