- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 10:47:14 +0100
- To: "UML-OWL Gen" <info@umlowlgen.com>
- Cc: public-owl-dev@w3.org, "Elisa F. Kendall" <ekendall@sandsoft.com>
Well, I hate to be the first pile on, buuuuuuut...
...what do you think you are patenting? It's hard to see anything
patentable here. What is patentable doesn't seem worth patenting and
certainly not worth the antipathy that 1) patenting and 2) pimping
your prima facie silly patenting generates.
(Given the many mapping of UML to OWL in the literature, I would be
interested to know what you thought was novel.)
I couldn't fine your patent in google's patent search, but I did find:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=NR6XAAAAEBAJ
though Elisa is a member of the OWL WG thus, presumably, is going to
be somewhat RANDy about this. I guess that one is going "the other
way", i.e., OWL to UML.
Finally, having your "try it" be "email us stuff and we'll email you
stuff back in 24 hrs":
http://www.umlowlgen.com/index.php?p=1_4_Try-It-
is...well, silly. Why not set up an actual, if limited, web service?
Similarly, your "test case" consists of a screen shot and a set of
stats...why not have the actual models/ontologies available for
download?
Finally, I don't see any pricing, download, or sales contact.
Not auspicious.
Cheers,
Bijan.
Received on Sunday, 3 May 2009 09:53:01 UTC