Re: Patent Discussion Forum now open at www.pubsub.org

Hi Bob,

I apologize for the lag. Falling behind the eight ball. :)

Thanks for putting the site together. I haven't had a chance to really dig
into it yet but I didn't want to let your announcement stand idle in my
inbox for much longer.

I'll try and devote some time to it this week.

Thanks again

-iain


On 1/31/03 19:26, "Bob Wyman" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Following up on my mail of January 25...
> 
> I've created the first cut of a site for discussing patents and patent
> applications at:
> http://www.pubsub.org/
> Please have a look and provide whatever feedback and suggestions you can
> to help me make this as useful as possible. At this time, I've only
> loaded a few document headers to provide the roots for some discussions.
> I will add more over time and invite you to use the "request new thread"
> link on the main page to ask that any specific patent or application be
> loaded to the site. My hope is that this will become a broadly useful
> site for collecting references to prior art as well as discussing the
> particular impact of specific patents and applications.
> 
> The "AOL IM Patent," as an example, can be found at:
> http://www.pubsub.org/pubsub/story/2003/1/31/151943/789
> However, I think that Peter St. Andre might prefer if Jabber specific
> discussion of this patent, and Jabber-specific discussion of other
> similar patents was focused on the present list.
> 
> If you'd like to see, and comment on, a particularly ludicrous patent
> application, check out Worldcom's application for a patent on using XML
> as a log file format...
> http://www.pubsub.org/pubsub/story/2003/1/31/164016/644
> 
> In the future, I'll be including on the site the discussions of patent
> law, etc. that I earlier mentioned are in the process of being prepared.
> 
> I hope you find the site useful...
> 
> bob wyman