We as a community can simply say we shall not stand for this. We are the ones, as customers, with power..... we can let them know.
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Fred Beecher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/6/08, Alexander Baxevanis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > and an earlier patent that they also own: > > > > http://www.google.com/patents?id=hrmAAAAAEBAJ&dq=7,174,286 > > > > I think those patents were filed around 2004, and I really wonder if > > such tools never existed in some form before that time. Maybe some of > > the people in the list who've been in the industry for long enough can > > provide some insight. > > > It looks like the first one is an extension of the second, which was > *filed* > around 2004 and granted in 2007. > > If "prior art" can be found (proving that such things existed before > > the patent was applied for) then the patent can be declared invalid. > > The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has taken up quite a few such > > cases - see http://www.eff.org/issues/patents > > > Well Axure itself existed before either patent was applied for. It was > first > released in 2003. > > Does "prior art" also cover offline practices? We've been doing annotated > wireframes forever, and what both Axure and iRise have done is to take that > offline practice and extend it into prototyping. They've just taken very > different approaches to doing so. > > Maybe this is an issue where the IxDA community can liaise with EFF > > and raise another case like that. > > > That would be fabulous. Does anyone here have contacts in the EFF? > > - Fred > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel +1.617.281.1281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] twitter: https://twitter.com/semanticwill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
