I agree, and the OMG has some boiler plate that typically removes them from any patent liability leaving it up to the implementor of the technology. What I have a problem is properly identifying "prior art". The background papers clearly cover these issues long before these patents were submitted, but only in a general way by describing the general problem that the patent is dealing with in the specific. There are some more papers that are relevant at: http://cadse.cs.fiu.edu/research_projects/RAD/publications/
I've not checked it out, but the book by Bob Blakley on CORBA Security could have a discussion and early reference, too.
I ran into a patent from H&R Block wHich basically patented distributed object-based computing in 1995. The fact that this was awarded a patent is a travesty of our patent system.
Dave
Yes indeed. There is an excellent appeal to the EU Council to oppose a forthcoming motion on software patents by some open source software luminaries at: http://nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/app0411.html
Tim C
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