Just to be clear, the patent is not for rich media apps as a whole. The patent is for creating rich media apps over the internet. For example a website where you create "rich media apps" via a web site. So this is *might*, be a problem for web sites like blogger, for example.
But the problem is that first claim, which is kind of the anchor claim makes a distinction for apps that are downloaded to the "remote" or client computer. In the age of JavaScript apps, does everything that uses javascript to create custom account websites infringe? If they intend to claim that javascript websites of this type all infringe, then I am sure there were websites in 2001 that used javascript that had account customization, so this could be easily invalidated. If they are trying to say that a real full application is downloaded, as opposed to being accessed via the web browser, then I suspect there is no prior art. I doubt there were java, flash, or c++ standalone apps being built by creating configurations through a web browser in 2001. The truth is that very little of this is happening today, so if this is what they are claiming it doesnt effect many people. I am a big defender of the importance of patents if not the implementation of the law via the patent office. The problem is that the people that decide are human and imperfect. In my cursory review, this patent is unclear, which patents often are. Unfortunately, the definiton of "downloading to remote computer" is unclear which makes it difficult to determine the scope. Regards, Hank On 2/23/06, Aral Balkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just set up a page on OSFlash that we can use to gather prior art on > this. > > http://osflash.org/balthaser_patent_prior_art_discovery > > If you have anything to contribute, please feel free to add to it. > > Blog post on new page: > http://www.flashant.org/index.php?p=540&more=1&c=1 > > Aral > > Philippe wrote: > > >This is just ridiculous and a shame. > ><snip> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
