- From: Paul Burchard <burchard@cs.princeton.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 95 16:43:05 -0400
- To: www-talk@w3.org
- Cc: www-vrml list <www-vrml@wired.com>
Can anyone here advise on the procedure for forwarding counterevidence against a pending patent (like Pei's and Simon's below) to the right people at the US Patent and Trademark Office? Pei Wei <pei@gnn.com> writes: > And for the record, I just want to point out that the > ``technology which enabled Web documents to contain > fully-interactive "inline" program objects'' > was existing in ViolaWWW and was *released* to the > public, and in full source code form, even back in 1993... > Actual conceptualization and existence occured before '93. Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu> writes: > In that case, the patent is worthless. Dynamic exchange > of executable code over the internet for use in rendering > documents has been addressed many times before. For > example, a standard for the exchange of such information > was discussed at the spring 1992 meeting of the > implementors working group of NISO sub-committee > Z39.50 which took place at the Library of Congress in > Washington. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Burchard <burchard@cs.princeton.edu> ``I'm still learning how to count backwards from infinity...'' --------------------------------------------------------------------
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