- From: Steve H Rose <habib@world.std.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 21:14:53 +0059 (EDT)
- To: www-talk@w3.org
The general number I have for patent info is (703) 308-HELP Afraid I don't have anything more specific. Yours, Steve Habib Rose On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Paul Burchard wrote: > 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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