Re: EOLAS ACQUIRES MILESTONE INTERNET SOFTWARE PATENT

Pei,

We've had this discussion before (last September, remember?).  You admitted
then that you did NOT release or publish anything like this before the Eolas
demonstrations.

>> 8/21/95  CHICAGO:  Eolas Technologies Inc. announced today that it has
>> completed a licensing agreement with the University of California for the
>> exclusive rights to a pending patent covering the use of embedded program
>> objects, or "applets," within World Wide Web documents.
>>
>> Also covered is the use of any algorithm which implements dynamic
>> bi-directional communications between Web browsers and external applications.
>>[....]
>
>I sincerely hope this patent isn't going to stick, for the good of 
>the web as a whole...
>
>And for the record, I just want to point out that the 
>  ``technology which enabled Web documents to contain fully-interactive
>    "inline" program objects''
>was existing in ViolaWWW and was *released* to the public, and in full
>source code form, even back in 1993... Actual conceptualization and 
>existence occured before '93.
>
>-Pei
>
>pei@gnn.com
>http://ebay.gnn.com/people/pei/home.html
>
>
>
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Received on Monday, 21 August 1995 16:11:03 UTC