Yours,
Steve Habib Rose
On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Paul Burchard wrote:
> Can anyone here advise on the procedure for forwarding
> counterevidence against a pending patent (like Pei's and Simon's
> below) to the right people at the US Patent and Trademark Office?
>
>
> Pei Wei <pei@gnn.com> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu> writes:
> > In that case, the patent is worthless. Dynamic exchange
> > of executable code over the internet for use in rendering
> > documents has been addressed many times before. For
> > example, a standard for the exchange of such information
> > was discussed at the spring 1992 meeting of the
> > implementors working group of NISO sub-committee
> > Z39.50 which took place at the Library of Congress in
> > Washington.
>
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> Paul Burchard <burchard@cs.princeton.edu>
> ``I'm still learning how to count backwards from infinity...''
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