- From: Ben Trafford <bent@dnai.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:05:16 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-talk@w3.org
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Robin Bailey wrote: > At 15:26 25-01-99 -0500, you wrote: > >Business as usual?: > > > > > > US5860073: Style sheets for publishing system > ... > > Applicant(s): > > Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA > > > >Issued/Filed Dates: > > Jan. 12, 1999 / July 17, 1995 > > If I read this correctly, doesn't it mean that MS have now been issued with > a patent which they filed for in 95, when it was probably thought of as a > document/spreadsheet concept, rather than the cascading stylesheet (HTML) > concept which has developed since then? No. The use of stylesheets to render a document has been in the computer industry for quite a while. It's existed in markup (as in SGML) since the early to mid 80s, I believe. This is an old idea. Reading their patent closely, they're attempting to claim ownership of an idea that predates any use they've had for it by at least fifteen years. --->Ben Trafford
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