United States Patent: 6,880,125

From Elliotte Harold's linkblog:

<http://tinyurl.com/54f52>

United States Patent: 6,880,125
System and method for XML parsing

Anyone have any idea on what impact this will have on existing pull 
parsers? Why it was necessary for BEA to patent pull parsing in the 
first place? Effect of similar patents on XML or other open formats? 
General commentary?

Thanks,
Ryan