FYI, isn't that just a wonderful world of patents?
Regards,
Joey
http://slashdot.org/yro/02/01/04/0119215.shtml
Canadian Company Claims RDF Patent
*Posted by timothy[1] on Thursday January 03, @08:29PM*
*from the patenting dept.*
quinticent writes: "Looks like they are at it again. Companies
seem to like to let a standard become, well, standard before
pulling out the lawyers to claim they own a patent on it. Now some
Canadian company is claiming they own a US patent on RDF (doesn't
Slashdot use RDF?). When will the US government realize that
allowing patents on common ideas is just wrong? The CNet article
is here[2]."
Links:
1. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
2. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8351560.html?tag=lthd
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