Many thanks for clarifying this particular issue, James.
Did Jason give any indication that he either does or does not plan to make
any claims WRT the patent? NSI is a pretty big target for this kind of
action, even if only on a speculative basis.
Bill Semich
.NU
At 09:20 AM 8/26/00 +0800, James Seng wrote:
>I spoke to Jason Poulis before (the guy who patented) and asked our
>lawyers to do some checks.
>
>Jason's patent is basically Martin's Draft in 1997. All the patent
>claims are in conflict with some prior work somewhere else, including
>Martin I-D and another Apple patent on encoding scheme etc.
>
>While RACE or UTF-5 may be be related to Jason patent, it is not a
>concern from our lawyers point of view.
>
>-James Seng
>
>Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
>>
>> At 8:04 AM -0400 8/25/00, J. William Semich wrote:
>> > And, as I mentioned in Pittsburgh
>> >as well as on this list, some parts of RACE may be covered by a patent
>> >granted to someone who is not even participating in this working group,
>>
>> The patent abstract you posted to this list on June 16 appears
>> completely unrelated to RACE. RACE does not rely on a pseudo-root.
>> RACE does not use hexadecimal encoding. I am not a lawyer, so there
>> may be parts that relate to RACE, but no one has shown that any part
>> of the patent applies to RACE.
>>
>> --Paul Hoffman, Director
>> --Internet Mail Consortium
>
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