Re: MS gets CSS patent?

hi,
  looks like time for another dark day this time for the day that 
a snake entered paradise..:)
At 11:24 PM 2/5/99 -0800, Inanis Brooke wrote:
>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>
>||
>||Who Owns the Patent to Style Sheets?
>||<http://webreview.com/wr/pub/1999/02/05/style/index2.html>
>||
>||Later,
>||Lawrence
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