[8963] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: EOLAS ACQUIRES MILESTONE INTERNET SOFTWARE PATENT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Doyle)
Mon Aug 21 16:52:54 1995
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 13:54:36 -0700
To: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>, www-talk@w3.org
From: miked@eolas.com (Mike Doyle)
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
You are interpreting the press release too broadly.
>On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Information wrote:
>
>>
>> The licensed technology was invented in 1993 by a team led by Eolas CEO, Dr.
>> Michael Doyle, a UCSF faculty member and past Director of the university's
>
>In that case, the patent is worthless. Dynamic exchange of executable
>code over the internet for use in rendering documents has been addressed
>many times before. For example, a standard for the exchange of such
>information was discussed at the spring 1992 meeting of the implementors
>working group of NISO sub-committee Z39.50 which took place at the
>Library of Congress in Washington.
>
>Sorry
>
>Simon
>
>
>
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