Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2009-08-12 15:11:42, schrieb Gene Heskett:
Distribution is probably the key word. I don't know how they think in a legal
world, but what the judge meant was to stop the patent violation.
IMO this patent will not, cannot stand. There is much prior art, some of it
has to be prior to the patent application. I can recall back in RH9 days
getting exasperated and freezing my own libxml version because every update
brought new problems, breaking seemingly unrelated apps just because the tool
they parsed their nameofprogram.rc file with was broken yet again.
Do you know that the patent with the number 5,787,449 is date 1994-06-02
and I am not realy sure, you will find much prior art... However, it is
very questionable, why l4i fille the lawsuit now and not for some years.
As I think has been mentioned before, there's lots of prior art
predating that, if you confine the discussion to whether there is a
separation between content and formatting. The one I'm most familiar
with is IBM's Generalized Markup Language (GML) -- I forget when I first
used it, but it was in the early 80's, and I think it had already been
around for quite a while. But there seems to be some specific technique
at issue here, not just the separation, and OOo may well not use that.
The timing for the suit is probably related to Microsoft having just
gotten into the XML world with Office 2007 formats -- in this case, .docx.
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