[Zope] Fw: [cms-list] eMedicine, Inc. Receives Patent for Internet Publishing Software

2000-10-02 Thread Dario Lopez-Kästen

as seen on cms list. Would this affect Zope in any way?
/dario

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 Interesting:
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 Information Today: http://www.infotoday.com/it/oct00/news14.htm
 "eMedicine, Inc. (http://www.emedicine.com), the medical-education network
 and developer of the first online peer-reviewed medical reference series,
 has announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a
patent
 to the company's proprietary Group Publishing System (GPS) software. The
GPS
 enables collaborative, enterprisewide publishing and allows authors and
 editors to create large, multi-author projects-online content, journals,
 books, and manuals-entirely on the Internet.
"Jeff Berezin, chief technical officer and architect of the GPS system,
 said: 'The software is unique-it is the only enterprise software that
allows
 all production to take place on the Internet. The system allows authoring
 and editing within the GPS environment or through word-processing programs
 like Word.' Software engineer Joanne Berezin, who co-developed the system,
 said, 'Our system is a complete authoring, editing, and version-control
 system with complete management-tracking tools and a built-in
communications
 network.'"
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Re: [Zope] Fw: [cms-list] eMedicine, Inc. Receives Patent for Internet Publishing Software

2000-10-02 Thread Tim Cook

"Dario Lopez-Kästen" wrote:
 
 as seen on cms list. Would this affect Zope in any way?

Standard IANAL disclaimer. But, I read the patent. It looks like
Zope is okay. You just can't build an application on it (or
anything else where multiple people edit the same document
online). Watch ZWiki

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Re: [Zope] Fw: [cms-list] eMedicine, Inc. Receives Patent for Internet Publishing Software

2000-10-02 Thread Lalo Martins

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:14:41PM -0500, Tim Cook wrote:
 "Dario Lopez-Kästen" wrote:
  
  as seen on cms list. Would this affect Zope in any way?
 
 Standard IANAL disclaimer. But, I read the patent. It looks like
 Zope is okay. You just can't build an application on it (or
 anything else where multiple people edit the same document
 online). Watch ZWiki

So wouldn't the original WikiWikiWeb be prior art?

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Re: [Zope] Fw: [cms-list] eMedicine, Inc. Receives Patent for Internet Publishing Software

2000-10-02 Thread Tim Cook

Lalo Martins wrote:
  anything else where multiple people edit the same document
  online). Watch ZWiki
 
 So wouldn't the original WikiWikiWeb be prior art?

I would think there is a lot of prior art. What I wrote above
should have been enclosed in SARCASM tags. :)

After citing several other patents there big key is supposed to
be not ahving to download a version of the document and work on
it locally and then upload it again. Also I noticed that their
software only works (according to them) with Mac  MS OS's. I
guess DC should file for a patent based on total cross-platform
use! vbg

Our patent office doesn't have a clue and doesn't seem to
research very much either. It's becoming worse than useless. One
of the developers that frequents the openhealth mailing lists
recently indicated that he had been contacted because he
supposedly infringed on someones patent. No details yet but he
indicated that it was some basic implementation that many
developers have done before.

Sorry for the topic drift


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