Fw: [cms-list] eMedicine, Inc. Receives Patent for Internet Publishing Software
as seen on cms list. Would this affect Zope in any way? /dario ----- Original Message -----
From: "Evan Williams" <ev@pyra.com>
Interesting: ----------------------------- Information Today: http://www.infotoday.com/it/oct00/news14.htm "eMedicine, Inc. (http://www.emedicine.com), the medical-education network and developer of the first online peer-reviewed medical reference series, has announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to the company's proprietary Group Publishing System (GPS) software. The GPS enables collaborative, enterprisewide publishing and allows authors and editors to create large, multi-author projects-online content, journals, books, and manuals-entirely on the Internet. "Jeff Berezin, chief technical officer and architect of the GPS system, said: 'The software is unique-it is the only enterprise software that allows all production to take place on the Internet. The system allows authoring and editing within the GPS environment or through word-processing programs like Word.' Software engineer Joanne Berezin, who co-developed the system, said, 'Our system is a complete authoring, editing, and version-control system with complete management-tracking tools and a built-in communications network.'" -----------------------------
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"Dario Lopez-Kästen" wrote:
as seen on cms list. Would this affect Zope in any way?
Standard IANAL disclaimer. But, I read the patent. It looks like Zope is okay. You just can't build an application on it (or anything else where multiple people edit the same document online). Watch ZWiki!!!! :-) -- Tim Cook -- Cook Information Systems | Office: (901) 884-4126 8am-5pm CDT * It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas. * FreePM Project Coordinator http://www.freepm.org OSHCA Founding Supporter http://www.oshca.org
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:14:41PM -0500, Tim Cook wrote:
"Dario Lopez-Kästen" wrote:
as seen on cms list. Would this affect Zope in any way?
Standard IANAL disclaimer. But, I read the patent. It looks like Zope is okay. You just can't build an application on it (or anything else where multiple people edit the same document online). Watch ZWiki!!!!
So wouldn't the original WikiWikiWeb be prior art? []s, |alo +---- -- Hack and Roll ( http://www.hackandroll.org ) News for, uh, whatever it is that we are. http://zope.gf.com.br/lalo mailto:lalo@hackandroll.org pgp key: http://zope.gf.com.br/lalo/pessoal/pgp Brazil of Darkness (RPG) --- http://zope.gf.com.br/BroDar
Lalo Martins wrote:
anything else where multiple people edit the same document online). Watch ZWiki!!!!
So wouldn't the original WikiWikiWeb be prior art?
I would think there is a lot of prior art. What I wrote above should have been enclosed in <SARCASM> tags. :) After citing several other patents there big key is supposed to be not ahving to download a version of the document and work on it locally and then upload it again. Also I noticed that their software only works (according to them) with Mac & MS OS's. I guess DC should file for a patent based on total cross-platform use! <vbg> Our patent office doesn't have a clue and doesn't seem to research very much either. It's becoming worse than useless. One of the developers that frequents the openhealth mailing lists recently indicated that he had been contacted because he supposedly infringed on someones patent. No details yet but he indicated that it was some basic implementation that many developers have done before. <Sorry for the topic drift> -- Tim Cook -- Cook Information Systems | Office: (901) 884-4126 8am-5pm CDT * It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas. * FreePM Project Coordinator http://www.freepm.org OSHCA Founding Supporter http://www.oshca.org
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