- From: <jim@idexer.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 07:32:39 -0800 (PST)
- To: <public-web-plugins@w3.org>
> > From the W3C homepage > http://www.w3.org/ > >> W3C Requests '906 Patent Re-Examination >> >> 2003-10-29: Acting on the advice of the W3C [76]HTML Patent >> Advisory Group, W3C has presented the United States Patent and >> Trademark Office with prior art establishing that US Patent No. >> 5,838,906 (the '906 patent) is invalid. W3C Director Tim >> Berners-Lee has written an unprecedented request to US Under If Tim Berners-Lee needs additional assistance I can offer proof that the concept, understanding and working of the '906 patent was already publicaly discovered and discussed in Feb '93 as an additional potential use for the XMosaic browser to load QT. Only reason it did not make a splash then was modem speed limitations and because XMosaic was still under going beta development. Everything the '906 patent relies on to work was already discovered and understoodm, whether by actual applications or because it was totally obivious by virtue of current and past web developments that eoloas had nothing to do.
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