On 1 Aug 2013, at 05:15, Martin Hepp <martin.h...@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
> Yesterday, Hewlett Packard has been granted a patent on "Policy Enforcement": > > http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8498959.html > http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8498959.pdf > > As far as I can see, it heavily constrains the commercial exploitation of > research done in the Semantic Web / Semantic Web Services community from > 2001-2009. > > So if you worked on policies in the context of Semantic Web Services or > Semantic Business Process Management before November 2009, it may be > worthwhile to check whether the patent claims inventions that you can prove > to have been prior art at that time. [Note: This is not legal advice ] If you read Claim#1 (the main claim) then it sounds like a "grid" version of policy enforcement engine(s). Very similar/same to what XACML does (1995) but distributed (which in itself is not novel). If Claim#1 is dubious, then all other claims depend on it. [Note: This is not legal advice ] Cheers... Renato Iannella Semantic Identity http://semanticidentity.com Mobile: +61 4 1313 2206
