RE: What a prior art product must do

A jury has already ruled against Microsoft in this case.  If the '906 patent was obvious from the patent law standpoint, my
assumption is that Microsoft tried to make this point in court and lost.

Richard

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> Looking over just claim #1 of the '906 patent, here's my reading what a
> product must do as a minimum to be prior art for the '906 patent:


Why look for prior art? All that needs to be shown is that the claims were
already obivious and publically known. Anyone remember the old HTML
mailing list in the early 90's? That's where eoloas got all the material
for writing the patent. When Marc added <img> to Mosaic most thought that
wasn't enough and wanted <embed> and other tags. Marc said he didn't have
enough time to add <embed> then. So this shows where the ideas came from
and that they were all obivious and openly discussed by those who worked
with early HTML and browsers.

Jim

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