On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 08:50:59AM +0300, Ez-Aton wrote: > > > ik wrote: > > >Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > >>On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 09:36:36PM +0300, Adir Abraham wrote: > >> > >>>The name of the patent - "Discoverability and navigation of > >>>hyperlinks via > >>>tabs" > >>> > >>>Suggested patents: pressing an X box to close a window, pressing the > >>>enter > >>>key to start a new line, and even - pressing ctrl-alt-del to manually > >>>restart (if possible) after a BSOD :) > >>> > >>>The article about this is found here: > >>>http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2978322,00.html > >>> > >>>The full document of the patent is found here: > >>>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,785,865.WKU.&OS=PN/6,785,865&RS=PN/6,785,865 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >>It appears that lynx is not a prior art to this patent, do to claim 3: > >> > >> 3. The method of claim 2 wherein, the visual indication is a curved > >> focus shape. > >>This patent is thus exteremly easy to bypass. Thus I suspect that this > >>claim and claim 6(e) were added to bypass existing prior art. > >> > >I wonder, if someone made a work with TAB (or any other "patent") > >before Microsoft was ever existed, does it imply to this work as well ? > > > > > >Ido > > Yes, unless he can prove it in the court of law. >
IANAL but I believe in such a case then the patent is revoked anyway since M$ won't be the ones entitled to request the patent (although their wording does seem to be usually very carefully chosen as to catch their implementation, and is probably more so that they can stop others from making look-alike programs). I know the I ran some time ago into a group that actually works to throw down such patents made on previous work belonging to someone else, don't remember their name though. Does anyone here know who they are? I don't think its the open source risk management group, I think they only supply very expensive legal aid and legal aid insurance (100000$ a year for companies and 250$ a year for individual kernel developers) BTW if you are into microsoft patents they also applied for a patent for multiple desktops, button click timing (http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/06/03/microsoft/?lsrc=mcrss-0604) ... > Ez. > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
