While catching up with my industry pub reading this week, I found something very interesting in eWeek.
Columnist Jim Rapoza holds software patents in the same high regard (*cough*) as most of the denizens here on IBM-MAIN. So I was happy to read his most recent column at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1972904,00.asp (hopefully the URL won't wrap). He discusses recent court cases that are depriving patent trolls of their main weapon (including the RIM-NTP debacle...maybe RIM should sue to get its money back). He also discusses the recent invalidation of a JPEG patent because of prior art. Which leads, to me anyway, the best part at the end of the column. The USPTO has introduced the "Patent to Peer" program to solicit input on prior art on patents and patent applications. It is at http://peertopatent.jot.com/. I'm going to suggest that all of those posters who last week demonstrated prior art of this patent's scope post the same information to the site (it's a wiki). Someone at the USPTO is paying attention, folks. Later, Ray ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
