Subject: Re: Bogus Patent? From: Guy_Murphy@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 08:43:48 +0100 |
Hi. If you wanted to turn the ground to sand under the patent in court, ask for their defination of metadata. One might hope the matter quickly reduced itself to philosophy, and you can't patent philosophy. Kind of like patenting formating produced while experiencing and existential crisis. Cheers Guy. xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 05/10/99 06:41:35 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: (bcc: Guy Murphy/UK/MAID) Subject: Bogus Patent? 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. > *************************************************************************** ** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. *************************************************************************** ** XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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