RE: Siderean patents faceted navigation
"Dale Mead" <[email protected]> Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:55:08 -0600
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Follow-on to my own post...
In the 1950's and early '60's, IBM believed that the "Library of the
Future" would be run on (IBM) computers. There was an extensive, long
running research project within IBM to figure out what that meant. The
results were not patentable by the standards of the day; however, they
were defensively published in the IBM Systems Journal starting about
1955 through about '63 (going from memory). The series of articles
examines how most library science (and by extension, information
architecture) concepts could be implemented within a computing
environment. This material is a gold mine for anyone in the unfortunate
position of having to defend against a broadly worded patent.
Any student out there looking for a publishable paper could do the IA/UX
world a lot of good by putting together a literature review of defensive
publications from the major labs during '50-'80 : "Sorry! You can't
patent this...!"
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<p>Follow-on to my own post...<br>
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In the 1950's and early '60's, IBM believed that the "Library of the<br>
Future" would be run on (IBM) computers. There was an extensive, long<br>
running research project within IBM to figure out what that meant. The<br>
results were not patentable by the standards of the day; however, they<br>
were defensively published in the IBM Systems Journal starting about<br>
1955 through about '63 (going from memory). The series of articles<br>
examines how most library science (and by extension, information<br>
architecture) concepts could be implemented within a computing<br>
environment. This material is a gold mine for anyone in the unfortunate<br>
position of having to defend against a broadly worded patent.<br>
<br>
Any student out there looking for a publishable paper could do the IA/UX<br>
world a lot of good by putting together a literature review of defensive<br>
publications from the major labs during '50-'80 : "Sorry! You can't<br>
patent this...!"<br>
<br>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]<br>
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