[IP] Ray Ozzie's demonstration of prior art for Eolas patent
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 14:08:16 -0600 (MDT)
From: Brett Glass <brett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: For IP: Ray Ozzie's demonstration of prior art for Eolas patent
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
See
http://www.ozzie.net/blog/stories/2003/09/12/savingTheBrowser.html
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Saving the Browser
Some months back I became aware of the patent US 5,838,906 and the Eolas
lawsuit against Microsoft, and followed a bit of conversation on the Net
related to it. As many, I believed the issue would quickly go away because
of ample prior art. Regrettably, this seems not to be the case.
It
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1032_3-5074799.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news>now
seems that perhaps the browser itself and the browsing experience may have
to be nontrivially modified as a result of the judgment. Although a bit
late, if some of us perhaps dust off our old code, is there a chance that
we could still save the browser through demonstration of clear prior art?
For my own interest, and for the record, I recently spent a little time
pursuing my intuition that Lotus Notes R3 might be viable prior art
relative to the patent in question. I am not an attorney, and I am surely
not well versed in the nuances of the case, but it seems to me after
initial investigation that there is indeed quite a bit of relevance.
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