Subject: [TS] Re: Patent issed for The Brain
From: Jack Park (jackpark@verticalnet.com)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 16:11:18 EST
If this list can stand a largish text document, I can forward a post to the
XML Topic Maps group that is the entire patent. Otherwise, I can send it
just to Ben for distribution. Let me know.
Jack Park
----- Original Message -----
From: <bgdarnel@unity.ncsu.edu>
To: <thoughtstream@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 11:40 AM
Subject: [TS] Re: Patent issed for The Brain
> "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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