Re: [Flashcoders] What does this PATENT mean??

2006-02-24 Thread Ron Wheeler
The US Patent Office is a mess and I suspect that most software patents like this one are not valid since their are lots of examples of prior art. This patent would be challenged by every big company if the owners ever tried to enforce it. They would have a hard time proving that they were the

RE: [Flashcoders] What does this PATENT mean??

2006-02-24 Thread Merrill, Jason
This is another silly attempt at making money - filing a patent after the technology existed and was in wide use - Adobe and Sun and others will respond. The patent covers all rich media technology implementations including Flash, Flex, Java, AJAX and XAML and all device footprints which