[Zope] IBM Patents Web Page Templates

Andrew Kenneth Milton akm@theinternet.com.au
Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:25:46 +1000


+-------[ Oleg Broytmann ]----------------------
| Hello!
| 
|    IANAL, but this IBM patent looks suspicious:
| http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=10&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1=HTML&OS=HTML&RS=HTML

I look forward to the patent violation suit against Microsoft w.r.t. to
Frontpage. d8)

There are some bizarre unenforcable patents out there if you look hard enough. 
Microsoft apparently holds a patent on transferring data across a bus from 
a device to memory. The fact this was happening before Microsoft existed
didn't stop them from getting a patent.

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