Ray Ozzie's demonstration of prior art for Eolas patent

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 14:08:16 -0600 (MDT)
From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat org>
Subject: For IP: Ray Ozzie's demonstration of prior art for Eolas patent
To: dave () farber net

See

http://www.ozzie.net/blog/stories/2003/09/12/savingTheBrowser.html

"

Saving the Browser

Some months back I became aware of the patent US 5,838,906 and the Eolas 
lawsuit against Microsoft, and followed a bit of conversation on the Net 
related to it.  As many, I believed the issue would quickly go away because 
of ample prior art.  Regrettably, this seems not to be the case.

It 
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1032_3-5074799.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news>now 
seems that perhaps the browser itself and the browsing experience may have 
to be nontrivially modified as a result of the judgment.  Although a bit 
late, if some of us perhaps dust off our old code, is there a chance that 
we could still save the browser through demonstration of clear prior art?

For my own interest, and for the record, I recently spent a little time 
pursuing my intuition that Lotus Notes R3 might be viable prior art 
relative to the patent in question.  I am not an attorney, and I am surely 
not well versed in the nuances of the case, but it seems to me after 
initial investigation that there is indeed quite a bit of relevance.
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