RE: [JXTA discuss] Question on Microsoft Patent

Michel,
They applied for the patent in July 2001.  JDOM has been around since
April 2000 though.

Sean

On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 22:16 +0200, Michel Polet wrote:

> Dear Bernard,
> 
> I am not a lawyer, but I think prior art should have prevented Microsoft to
> have receveid the patent in the first place.
> 
> I don't know when they applied for the patent.
> 
> But I know this: O'Reilly published the following book in May 2002:
> "Java & XML Data Binding" by Brett McLaughlin, ISBN 0-596-00278-5.
> 
> In his book, Brett McLaughlin mentions many XML specificaions, technologies
> and XML serialization deserializaion based on Sun and others work.
> 
> Obviously, that book could not have been written before the various items
> described or mentioned came into existence.
> 
> If you cannot find the book, I can hand it to Sun Belgium who could arrange
> to
> have it delivered to you via your internal mail.
> 
> Michel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernard Traversat [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 03:23 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [JXTA discuss] Question on Microsoft Patent
> 
> 
> 
> Sean McCandless wrote:
> > Microsoft was issued a patent today on XML object serialization.  Since
> > JXTA uses XML how are we going to deal with this?
> Sean,
> 
> Thanks for pointing out this, and we will look into it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> B.
> 
> 
> >
> > Article on patent:
> > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39200357,00.htm
> >
> > Patent document:
> >
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1
> &u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,898,604.WKU.&OS=PN/6,898,604&RS=P
> N/6,898,604
> >
> <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=
> 1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,898,604.WKU.&OS=PN/6,898,604&RS=
> PN/6,898,604>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sean
> 
> 
> 
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