Re: Microsoft Patents Writing Windows Apps Using HTML

How very interesting, thanks.

I see that this was filed on May 20 1999.

Under 'other references' I also see our product WPM (which was subsequently
renamed Zeepe [http://www.zeepe.com/] ) flagged as being available "at least
as early as June 1999". In fact WPM was first made public and offered for
sale on our company site during May 1998. WPM/Zeepe is also a "method and
apparatus for writing a windows application in HTML"  as described in the
abstract of this patent [6,662,341].

I wonder what the intention is here.

Jerry Mead
http://www.meadroid.com/


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Subject: Microsoft Patents Writing Windows Apps Using HTML


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> Anyone care to comment on the patent [6,662,341] Microsoft
> was awarded today for Writing Windows Applications Using HTML?
>
> It covers the authoring and execution of HTML that runs
> in its own window outside of the browser.
>
> Seems like it would be tougher to code around than the Eolas
> patent!
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>
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,662,341.WKU.&OS=PN/6,662,341&RS=PN/6,662,341
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