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Umm… there are no IADS patents. IADS was a hypertext system developed by Unisys for the US Army in the 89/90 and is still operational last I checked.
I4I is the firm I believe(?).
I wish we had patented the tech in IADS possibly as do several other SGML product teams wish they had done theirs. I might have been able to retire. ;-)
len
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think it serves as an interesting counterpoint to the Microsoft XML Word
Processing Document patent that the Redmond company received earlier this week.
The IADS patent is clearly silly, and there is, even at that point, enough
information that an Amica Curiae could be filed by anyone in the XML community,
if they were so willing to get involved in this. On the other hand, it also
serves to point out the Microsoft patent isn't all that much less silly, and
more significantly does not represent an innovative new technology but clearly
an obvious use of an existing technology. Of course, it being Microsoft, that
one will probably stand, while the other, equally spurious patent gets laughed
out of court. On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@talsever.com> wrote: On
Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:41:13 -0500, Len Bullard wrote: Uh. Probably something that needs to be done;
possibly true that folks
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