Re: Adobe patent for RDB Direct Mapping?

Does the W3C have a process for requesting the prosecution history?

Dan

Professor Daniel P. Miranker

Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin

miranker@cs.utexas.edu
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~miranker



On Nov 19, 2011, at 11:58 PM, Ivan Herman wrote:

> Sigh. We did not need this...
> 
> Yes, we have to look into this asap. I am talking to our legally minded guys i the team to see what the necessary next steps are. I guess some contact with Adobe will be in order. We will obviously need some short assessment on the technical situation asap...
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> Richard, thanks for this. I saw this yesterday on the Web, but you beated me in forwarding the info... 
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> Ivan
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> On 20 Nov 2011, at 01:00, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de> wrote:
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>> I didn't read more than the abstract, but this Adobe patent looks at least *slightly* related to the Direct Mapping. Filed in 2009. Anyone care to summarize what's being claimed?
>> 
>> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8037108.PN.&OS=PN/8037108&RS=PN/8037108
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>> Shortened URL: http://1.usa.gov/vwEN7z 
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>> Best,
>> Richard

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