Found the Australian application. It was lodged in Australia on 27th May, 2003. I'm going to investigate a little further about how one goes about notifying prior art (won't really help if the patent has been granted in the us, Australia will probably just rubber stamp it).
> > Cor Nouws wrote: > > > Hi Jürgen, > > > > > > Juergen Schmidt wrote (12-8-2009 7:25) > > > > > >> The FLatXML filter is as example part of the SDK since years. I don't > > >> know exactly and have to check it but i assume it is part since the > > >> beginning of the SDK. > > >> [...] > > > > > > And that was when? > > > > May 2003 (see the old cvs repo) when i have checked in the filter in the > > SDK. > > OK, if my memory serves me right, that was about 2 years before MS applied > for their patent (there needs to be a proper check, but IIRC they applied > in 2005 or thereabouts). I'll see if I still have the PDF of the > application somewhere. > > I believe the US Patent office has a bad habit of not checking for, or > ignoring notifications of, prior art. From the reading I've done, the "SOP" > is to grant the patent and *then* fight about prior art. > > > Juergen > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
