Subject: [TS] Re: Patent issed for The Brain
bgdarnel@unity.ncsu.edu
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 14:40:45 EST
"Jack Park" <jackpark@verticalnet.com> wrote:
>
>Looks to me like they pretty much patented the entire WWW. We "forget"
>thoughts by deleting web pages. So do they. We put directionality into
our
>thoughts with the forward and back buttons. We build thoughts with web
>pages, storing information there in a plurality of forms (e.g. .doc, .pdf,
>.html, .xml, etc). Gads, this patent may even cover object embedding
>(dcom), not to mention Hypercard. Maybe MS will, indeed, buy these folks
>out.
I think that the only way this patent got issued at all was because the
neurological metaphor masked the sheer obviousness of the technology behind
it.
I suggest we use this page on Lucid:
http://www.memes.net/index.php3?request=displaypage&NodeID=187
to collect references to prior art. On Technocrat, Bruce said that to
invalidate a patent, you must invalidate each claim individually. The
claims can be found here:
http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?&pn=US06031537__&s_clms=1#clms
To invalidate a claim, you must show that it is either
* not novel (i.e. it had been done before November 1996)
* not obvious (this is subjective; prior art is a more reliable way of
invalidating a claim)
There are a lot of prior art references on the ThoughtStream website and
the Technocrat and topicmapmail discussions; it's time to start matching
these references to specific claims.
So that noone's work gets clobbered, I recommend you compose your addition
to lucid in another program, then edit the node and paste in your
contribution.
-Ben
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