Actually, prior art prohibits something from being patented. If somebody can
demonstrate that the pantented concept is not new due to prior art then the
patent office will not issue the patent.
On 10-Jan-00 Randy Harmon wrote:
>
> IANAL, but I understand that technologies that were in the public domain can
> not be patented. And if a patent is issued, it's not enforcable in that
> case. Again, IANAL, but I feel that FreeType falls in that same category
> (see http://www.freetype.org).
>
> Randy
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:43:47AM -0800, Cliff Rayman wrote:
>> looks like they submitted a patent for an embedded mark-up language.
>> the language can actually be embedded inside an html page (what
>> a concept!).
>>
>> see virtualsellers.com and the TAME language section.
>> patent filing info was on business wire.
>>
>> <soapbox>
>> These patents scare me since the patent granters seem not to understand
>> software very well - and it seems like it is diametrically opposed
>> to what the open software movement stands for.
>> </soapbox>
>>
>> cliff rayman
>> genwax.com
>>
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