Pushpins: patented? [was: Frames - does anyone like them? ]

In message <3219BFE0.1065@ned.dem.csiro.au>, Simon Cox writes:
>
>(As an aside, I think that Sun's OpenLook interface was much 
>more consistent than Motif, and particularly liked the push-pins 
>that allowed you to keep a window or menu on screen if you wanted.  
>Shame it lost.

Yes, the push-pins idiom is great. We used it in the OLIAS browser[1]
that I used to work on back at HaL. I seem to remember some patent
scare that delayed our use of it. Does anybody remember any claims
that the push-pin idiom was patented?

[1] http://www.baker.com/the-baker-reports/IW94-sp/report/press-releases/hal-olias.html
HalSoft dissolved, and the danged thing has all but disappeared from
the net!

Received on Monday, 19 August 1996 22:36:13 UTC