- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:35:53 -0800
- To: <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> There used to be a grace period of 1 year after public disclosure for > filing. In this case, I still think we can demonstrate public disclosure. The minutes from the August 25, 1998 DASL BOF at the Chicago IETF clearly show a protocol that wraps SQL in XML and uses the SEARCH verb. http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/98aug/98aug-36.htm#TopOfPage (see the slides) As well, there are minutes from the previous LA IETF that also show this protocol, and these are from a year before filing. Additionally, it seems like the VESA case applies here, since DASL was led, and pushed by Microsoft at the time, and the IETF had/has clear IP disclosure rules. Again, IANAL. - Jim
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