W3C files at the US Patent & Trademark Office regarding the 'Eolas' patent]

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:28:49 -0500
> From: Daniel Weitzner <djweitzner () w3 org>
> Subject: W3C files at the US Patent & Trademark Office regarding the 'Eolas'
>  patent]
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
>
>
> [for IP if you like - danny]
>
> World Wide Web Consortium Presents US Patent Office with Evidence 
> Invalidating Eolas Patent
>
> http://www.w3.org -- 29 October 2003 -- The World Wide Web Consortium 
> (W3C), the global standard-setting body for the Web, has presented the 
> United States Patent and Trademark Office with prior art establishing that 
> US Patent No. 5,838,906 (the '906 patent) is invalid and should therefore 
> be re-examined in order to eliminate this unjustified impediment to the 
> operation of the Web. The W3C is urging US Under Secretary of Commerce for 
> Intellectual Property James E. Rogan to initiate a re-examination of the 
> patent because the critical prior art was neither considered at the time 
> the patent was initially examined and granted, nor during recent patent 
> infringement litigation.
>
> In an unprecedented step, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of 
> the Web, sent a letter today to Under Secretary Rogan requesting that his 
> office reinvestigate the matter. "W3C urges the USPTO to initiate a 
> reexamination of the '906 patent in order to prevent substantial economic 
> and technical damage to the operation of World Wide Web," stated 
> Berners-Lee. "The impact of this patent will be felt not only by those who 
> are alleged to directly infringe, but all whose web pages and application 
> rely on the stable, standards-based operation of browsers threatened by 
> this patent. In many cases, those who will be forced to incur the cost of 
> modifying Web pages or software applications do not even themselves 
> infringe the patent - assuming it is even valid."
>
> Letter Urging Action: http://www.w3.org/2003/10/27-rogan.html
>
> Detailed Filing: http://www.w3.org/2003/10/301-filing.html
>
>
> --
> Daniel J. Weitzner                              +1.617.253.8036 (MIT)
> World Wide Web Consortium                       +1.202.364.4750 (DC)
> Technology & Society Domain Leader              <djweitzner () w3 org>
> http://www.w3.org/People/Weitzner.html

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