Subject: [TS] Patent issed for The Brain
From: Michael Simcich (msimcich@accesstools.com)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 22:49:00 EST
I know this was mentioned here a while ago, but apparently it's now
official. The Brain (www.thebrain.com) by Natrificial has a patent
approved for their brain technology that "allows any piece of
information to be linked and accessed from multiple locations within
the interface – giving users the ability to retrieve and navigate data
by association".
I use the Brain, I like it a lot. I really, really, don't want
Natrificial to own a patent that will ultimately prevent similiar
dynamic linking interfaces from being developed. If that's what the
patent is going to amount to it has the potential to impact the
development of computer interfaces in a very negative way, far
exceeding the damages that might be caused by the types of ecommerce
related patents that Amazon has been awarded (which are also a real
bummer).
Can anyone speak to this issue? How broad a reach does a patent like
this have? I haven't read it (or any patents for that matter), I'm just
hoping that Ben or someone is up on this.
Thanks
Michael
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