We've had this discussion before (last September, remember?). You admitted
then that you did NOT release or publish anything like this before the Eolas
demonstrations.
>> 8/21/95 CHICAGO: Eolas Technologies Inc. announced today that it has
>> completed a licensing agreement with the University of California for the
>> exclusive rights to a pending patent covering the use of embedded program
>> objects, or "applets," within World Wide Web documents.
>>
>> Also covered is the use of any algorithm which implements dynamic
>> bi-directional communications between Web browsers and external applications.
>>[....]
>
>I sincerely hope this patent isn't going to stick, for the good of
>the web as a whole...
>
>And for the record, I just want to point out that the
> ``technology which enabled Web documents to contain fully-interactive
> "inline" program objects''
>was existing in ViolaWWW and was *released* to the public, and in full
>source code form, even back in 1993... Actual conceptualization and
>existence occured before '93.
>
>-Pei
>
>pei@gnn.com
>http://ebay.gnn.com/people/pei/home.html
>
>
>
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