Il giorno 19/gen/08, alle ore 00:49, Dudley Mills ha scritto:

Thanks Renato,

> You didn't anticipated anything, the concept of semantic data is a very
> old concept, not to say ancient, you just filled a bloody patent to be
> able to profit from public domain ideas before anyone could do it.

I anticipated the extraction of contact, classification and geographic semantic data from web pages and its incorporation in searchable databases.

Can a patent cover something like this ?

a "database" is almost "searchable" by definition. For the rest, what does it mean ? That I if I make a script that fetch and store geografic information from web pages, this is illegal ? No matter that I made it even without ever by far having heard if the patent, or any tools developed on it ?

I guess your patent covers some specific technology, algorithm, or software...

I agree that the concept of semantic data is very old and I feel it is well past the time that the concept should have had substantial commercial importance on the internet.

Yes, but commercial value comes with real value. You what are you bringing to the people ? If it is something they already have, looks more like you are taking away something.

Fair criticism if I had the fire that you espouse but I am retired. If Google or Microsoft want the patents, I’d consider those to be good homes.

I would be curious to know which would be the bad ones.

.Years ago I asked W3C if they had any use for the patents (donated free). They suggested I setup (yet) another working group. If free does not do the job, I’ll try not-free.

I have the feeling that the only one one could make money with these kind of patents is sue other people unaware of them... that's not nice, isn't it ?

Kind regards,
Dudley Mills,
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