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- From: "Clark C. Evans" <cce@clarkevans.com>
- To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 19:35:50 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Richard Tobin wrote:
> Is this just a joke, or are these guys really trying to patent using a
> schema to give a choice of legal elements in an editor?
It does look like they are trying to patent it. Humorous isn't it?
> The XML editor in Visual Markup employs our patent-pending
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This just means that they submitted a "preliminary patent" or
a "patent application". The PTO has yet to review it...
I really hope that the PTO would be smart enough to
see that there is both prior art for this and also
that the technique is obvious. You never know!
Clark
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