Re: IBM patents Template Systems?

2001-10-17 Thread Joe Schaefer
Ged Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote: > > > Joe Schaefer writes: > > > A causal reading seems to suggest that most mod_perl-based > > > templating systems do exactly what this patent will cover: > > > > "the tool generates the customized Web si

Re: IBM patents Template Systems?

2001-10-17 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Ged Haywood wrote: > An only slightly less casual reading indicates that anyone who writes > > use strict; > > or > > > > isn't at risk of violating this patent. It looks to me that products like Zope or Midgard are more going to be in violation, but since they are Python a

RE: IBM patents Template Systems?

2001-10-17 Thread Adam Prime
Ged Haywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:03 PM > To: Nathan Torkington > Cc: Joe Schaefer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: IBM patents Template Systems? > > > Hi all, > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote: > > > Joe Sch

Re: IBM patents Template Systems?

2001-10-17 Thread Joshua Chamas
Joe Schaefer wrote: > > Has anyone else noticed this? > > >http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=10&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1=HTML&OS=HTML&RS=HTML > > A causal reading seems to suggest that most mod_perl-based > templating systems

Re: IBM patents Template Systems?

2001-10-17 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi all, On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote: > Joe Schaefer writes: > > A causal reading seems to suggest that most mod_perl-based > > templating systems do exactly what this patent will cover: > > "the tool generates the customized Web site without the web site > creator writing any

Re: IBM patents Template Systems?

2001-10-17 Thread John Armstrong
Is this applying to an application based tool only or does it also apply to web based tools? We have a product that we have licensed out for 4 years or so that does exactly this via the web( approx 5000 sites are using it now ). I am sure others do as well. Just not sure what the scope of this

Re: IBM patents Template Systems?

2001-10-17 Thread Nathan Torkington
Joe Schaefer writes: > A causal reading seems to suggest that most mod_perl-based > templating systems do exactly what this patent will cover: > i.e. set up a non-HTML based website where templates > dynamically convert non-HTML files into HTML. IANAL (and IVAGINAL too, but that's for a differe

IBM patents Template Systems?

2001-10-17 Thread Joe Schaefer
Has anyone else noticed this? http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=10&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1=HTML&OS=HTML&RS=HTML A causal reading seems to suggest that most mod_perl-based templating systems do exactly what this patent will cov