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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?"
fp?
props to gnaa
fp you fucking nazis!
yes?
Batman touched my junk liberally. he strapped me in to his batmobile and he couldnt keep his offensive hands off of me. he was performing many red flag touches. i couldnt believe what the fuck was going on. i told batman the city would not approve of a millionaire touching an underage kid for free.
Can you believe it? Batman did all this. He picked me off the street, strapped my arms and legs down in the batmobile's passenger seat, and just wouldn't stop fondling my cock'n'balls.
They definately were red flag touches. the goddamn referee he had in the back seat kept on raising up this red flag every time he touched my junk but did batman care? NO WAY! He just kept on doing it. I couldn't believe what the fuck was going on, indeed. I pleaded with Mr. Wayne but to no avail. I told him the city would not approve of such a wealthy man touching an underage kid like me (at the time I was 13) without at least compensating me for the trauma and the use of my body as his own personal plaything.
This got to him, worrying about his image. He continued to fondle me, all the while ignoring the referee's red flags. Then he drove the batmobile to my house and *ejected the seat I was in*! It was amazing. But surprisingly, after I woke up the next morning, my bank account had $150k in it! Can you believe it?
In Soviet Russia prior art prevents patents. Wait! That can't be right?
What are you talking about?
wrong... you're the one that have to pay for Microsoft ME... or XP, or 2000...
slow man
Eolas Reexam? Is that supposed to be an anagram for some Hollywood actor?
In Soviet Russia, do tired, worn out jokes tell you? ;)
what does that link to? Goatse on a government site?
first post!!! you lame assholes... I can post first because my XBox is a american product and my pride in my great country and my great XBox accelerate everything...
If only they would make games for that bitch... IAve played Metroid Prime and it ruled... I hope M$ will buy those japanese bastards and port Metroid to my great american console system!!!
No, it was ME!
what idiot modded down a link to the actual patent?
No, really!
My God! It's full of Voids!
...uh, I dunno...
Four Words ?
Oh no - now I've got the Monkey Dance song in my head for the rest of the day....
Spelling mistakes: My is english spoken not tongue of mother.
I understand; news for nerds and all that, but
Who really gives a flying fuck? Come on!
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...
this was supposed to go in the lindows vs. microsoft thread... don't know how I got here...
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?
mefus
In Open Society, GPL Software frees YOU!
uhmmmm, i'm eating a hamburger right now, let me think about your pricing after i step on this 'roach'.
cheers!