Re: Patent threat over RDF?

[...]
> Has anyone else received this?

[[[
18:18:28 <jeffbarr> Happy new year everyone. Did anyone else receive a
package of patents via Fedex from Merchant &
[...]
18:23:29 <jeffbarr> I got a packet via Fedex yesterday from a law
firm. They state that a company has developed and patented a way of
dynamically organizing and patenting data, and that "Implementations
of the well-known Resource Description Framework ("RDF") and RDF Site
Summary ("RSS") technologies, among other uses, may be covered by one
of more of the claims of UDTL's patents." They enclosed copies of the
patents and are interested in development and licensing.
]]] - http://ilrt.org/discovery/chatlogs/rdfig/2002-01-01.txt

Some discussion followed. Note also:-

   http://www.pearlltd.com/content/news/03-10-00.html
   http://www.pearlltd.com/content/news/10-27-99.html

chumped at:-

   http://rdfig.xmlhack.com/2002/01/01/2002-01-01.html

This is an interesting start to the new year for RDF.

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Sean B. Palmer
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Received on Wednesday, 2 January 2002 12:34:56 UTC