Bogus Patent?

["Vun Kannon, David" <dvunkannon@xxxxxxxx>]

	I solicit comment on whether or not the patent referred to below
(snipped from a recent NEON press release about another patent) could
possibly be valid.
	Cheers,
	David vun Kannon

	> Second EAI Patent 
	> 
	> This is NEON's second broad-reaching patent in the EAI industry.
Last
	> month, NEON acquired VIE Systems, Inc., holder of U.S. patent
number
	> 5,842,205 for dynamic formatting and the use of metadata to
control the
	> formatter.  NEON now has the patents to two of the most critical
	> components of EAI: rules and formatting. 
	> 

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