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Yes. This is the patent I mentioned to Dare. Some articles I've
read state that this does cover most if not all of the commercial
web browsers.
So, how many don't want a royalty-free standard for the web
browser? The problem of hidden patents can't hide forever from
standardization where a call for known patents is issued to any
and all concerned. The legal process must be ammended to enable
such a call to prevent hidden patents, and hidden patents must
be treated by the same means (emminent domain) that enable
communities to take ownership of necessary properties. This
would be a bold step but necessary. The concepts of essential
facilities and emminent domain are related. The task is for
the international legal and treaty communities to create a
framework for handling these issues in the context of royalty
free international standards to which the signatories are the
nation states, not the IP owners.
len
From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:jonathan.robie@datadirect-technologies.com]
Eolas and the University of California claimed that Microsoft infringed
U.S. Patent No. 5,838,906, and the federal court agreed. If I am reading it
correctly, which may not be the case, this patent seems to cover all
embedded objects in web browsers that get their data from other programs
over the Internet. That describes the architecture of a lot of web pages!
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