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New Prior Art Cited In 2nd Eolas Patent Rejection
theodp writes "To be able to reject the Eolas browser plug-in patent a second time, the USPTO had to add the teachings of G.Toye after Eolas' response prompted the examiner to withdraw his previous finding that was based solely on the teachings of the W3C's Dave Raggett and Tim Berners-Lee. It's unclear where the Toye prior art came from, since the W3C didn't offer it when it asked the PTO to overturn the patent. Also, a newly available document reveals that the W3C's widely-publicized prior art filing, which was hastily made without community input, differed little from an unpublicized filing that was made weeks earlier by attorneys from Microsoft and AOL."
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Nice troll!
But, can you understand it?
Linux is to the internet as Duct Tape is to the Universe.
I am hereby filing a patent for the first p0st to be modded a 5 under this topic. I said it first and regardless of what you might say in your post, the patent on your post is mine. I accept PayPal, see you on eBay, thank you.
email me at sukura @ gmail . com i have a small handful to give out. post here that you've taken one so others are in the loop. if more than 4 people post here they're prolly used up.
Andy, its a troll, because women's issues have nothing to do with software patents.
I'm assuimg you're either stupid or a moron at this point, since you don't grasp that fundamental issue.
Which is it? Stupid or Moron?
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