Re: MS gets CSS patent?

Could somebody please confirm or deny: Does Microsoft, as of January 12,
1999, have a U.S. patent which includes CSS?

Or to rephrase, does patent number 5860073 (linked below) include CSS?

Read the items linked below for info.


|I would have also forwarded this to the CSS list, but almost everyone on is
|is probably also on this one as well. What is going on here? How could MS
|get away with this?
|
http://www.patents.ibm.com/patlist?icnt=US&patent_number=5860073

||Microsoft Awarded Style Sheet Patent
||<http://webreview.com/wr/pub/1999/02/05/style/index.html>
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||Who Owns the Patent to Style Sheets?
||<http://webreview.com/wr/pub/1999/02/05/style/index2.html>
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||Later,
||Lawrence
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Received on Saturday, 6 February 1999 02:22:44 UTC