- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 15:23:29 +0100
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Cc: Mitch Kokar <mkokar@vistology.com>, Elisa Kendall <ekendall@sandsoft.com>, UML-OWL Gen <info@umlowlgen.com>, public-owl-dev@w3.org
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.
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