Jim Ley wrote: > "Francis Hemsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> IE7 Beta 2 Preview(3/20/2006) does not initially focus on the events >> contained within an SVG document included in an embed. >> It provides its own statement, via an onMouseOver popup display: "click >> to activate and use this control". >> >> This lack of focus also occurs when the SVG document is panned(Alt >> Key), thereby requiring another click to refocus the document's events. >> >> This not acceptable as a seamless use of the EMBED that contains an SVG >> document on a webpage. >> This was not a problem in IE5.5, IE6, or the previous IE7 Beta issue. >> > > Talk to the US patent office, all other UA's should be following suit, or > paying massive licensing fees to EOLAS. > nah there was "real prior art" and microsoft is continuing the appeal process... and if Eolas knew about the prior art and kept it from the courts they might be on the receieving end of fines.... > Mostly it's a stunt to annoy the patent office into pulling its finger out > heheh yes software patents make no sense most methodologies in the computer industry are mostly common knowledge or publicly presented by scientists who wanted them to be aknowledged and used by everybody. The few exceptions to this the patent office probably is not qualified to nor should be expected to figure out. Combining those pretty much public methods in unique complex fashions makes for copyrightable material but not patentable. Do you patent the color blue?
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