Re: UML-OWL Generator, A product to convert UML into OWL

If we're gathering links:

http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=description+logic+uml&btnG=Search
http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=franconi+ICOM&btnG=Search&hl=en
http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=uml+owl&btnG=Search&hl=en

None of this, of course, shows that the UML-OWL one isn't novel in  
some sense. Who knows?

Personally, I wouldn't be thrilled with a patent for a relatively  
trivial variant. But would I be happier with a patent on a variant  
that captured the semantics in a substantially better way? Can you  
patent a mapping? (That just seems like a mathematical function...)

Cheers,
Bijan.