Re: Siderean patents faceted navigation
"Luciano Ramalho" <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 22:56:36 -0200
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--P9RvICWVNjuoLRBkYLfv45PmkJQcECqyRL1CdKQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The US Patent system worked fine when patents were about mechanisms, circuits, industrial processes and other physical matters, but as soon as software, mathematical formulae (and now "navigation systems"!?!) were considered patentable, it became an international joke that only patent lawyers can profit from. Let's see how much longer this folly will continue before innovation is so much hindered that enough US politicos will agree to fix it. Cheers, Luciano On 1/30/07, Kathryn La Barre <[email protected]> wrote: > This is an interesting development in light of Endeca's patent for Guided > Navigation (May 26th) > "U.S. Patent No. 7,035,864 covering the company's hierarchical data-driven > navigation system and method for information retrieval, known in the search > and information access markets as the Guided Navigation experience." > > http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=15813 > > From the company site: > http://endeca.com/corporate-info/press-room/pr/p_052406.html > > When Endeca visited the University of IL recently (November 2006) to discuss > how their products might be used by our library consortium reference was > made to several other patents in the works. It will be interesting to see > how this conversation continues to develop. > > Kathryn La Barre > Assistant Professor > GSLIS/UIUC > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ---------- > Thanks for playing. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > --P9RvICWVNjuoLRBkYLfv45PmkJQcECqyRL1CdKQ Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> </head> <!-- Network content --> <body style="background-color: #ffffff;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStartT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="width:655px; position:relative;"> <div id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 490px; padding: 0 15px 0 0; float:left; z-index:1;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlEndT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-text"> <p>The US Patent system worked fine when patents were about mechanisms,<br> circuits, industrial processes and other physical matters, but as soon<br> as software, mathematical formulae (and now "navigation systems"!?!)<br> were considered patentable, it became an international joke that only<br> patent lawyers can profit from.<br> <br> Let's see how much longer this folly will continue before innovation<br> is so much hindered that enough US politicos will agree to fix it.<br> <br> Cheers,<br> <br> Luciano<br> <br> On 1/30/07, Kathryn La Barre <<a href="mailto:kathryn.labarre%40gmail.com">kathryn.labarre@<wbr>gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > This is an interesting development in light of Endeca's patent for Guided<br> > Navigation (May 26th)<br> > "U.S. Patent No. 7,035,864 covering the company's hierarchical data-driven<br> > navigation system and method for information retrieval, known in the search<br> > and information access markets as the Guided Navigation experience."<br> ><br> > <a href="http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=15813">http://www.econtent<wbr>mag.com/Articles<wbr>/ArticleReader.<wbr>aspx?ArticleID=<wbr>15813</a><br> ><br> > From the company site:<br> > <a href="http://endeca.com/corporate-info/press-room/pr/p_052406.html">http://endeca.<wbr>com/corporate-<wbr>info/press-<wbr>room/pr/p_<wbr>052406.html</a><br> ><br> > When Endeca visited the University of IL recently (November 2006) to discuss<br> > how their products might be used by our library consortium reference was<br> > made to several other patents in the works. It will be interesting to see<br> > how this conversation continues to develop.<br> ><br> > Kathryn La Barre<br> > Assistant Professor<br> > GSLIS/UIUC<br> ><br> ><br> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > ----------<br> > Thanks for playing.<br> > Yahoo! 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