US Patent and Trademark office: http://www.uspto.gov/
+1-800-786-7199 (from US and Canada only I believe)
The examiners for this patent:
Raymond Bayerl, +1-703-305-9789
Cao Nguyen, +1-703-305-3972
Another software specialist I was referred to at USPTO was Tom Black at +1-703-305-9707
USPTO only receives on average about 150 phone calls per day to the 800 number above... if a bunch of us call and make *clear* and *cogent* comments every time one of these ridiculous patents (remember Comptons? Oneclick?) occurs we could turn them around pretty quick I expect.
I mentioned several visual muds then in development in a paper I wrote in 1992-1993 called The Future of Text Based Virtual Reality, http://ocean.ic.net/library/hhardy/FutTxVR21.txt
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US Patent and Trademark office: http://www.uspto.gov/ +1-800-786-7199 (from US and Canada only I believe) The examiners for this patent: Raymond Bayerl, +1-703-305-9789 Cao Nguyen, +1-703-305-3972 Another software specialist I was referred to at USPTO was Tom Black at +1-703-305-9707 USPTO only receives on average about 150 phone calls per day to the 800 number above... if a bunch of us call and make *clear* and *cogent* comments every time one of these ridiculous patents (remember Comptons? Oneclick?) occurs we could turn them around pretty quick I expect. I mentioned several visual muds then in development in a paper I wrote in 1992-1993 called The Future of Text Based Virtual Reality, http://ocean.ic.net/library/hhardy/FutTxVR21.txt