Re: [ba-unrev-talk] SBC Wants Your Money: U.S. patent 5,933,841 (1999)Structured Document Browser

[Gerald Pierce <g_pierce@pacbell.net>]

Thanks for the wake-up call, Henry.   You're absolutely accurate, but it
is a fact that is made somewhat less apparent by the digital millennium act.
GER

Henry K van Eyken wrote:
> Quote from Gingerly's article: "It is hard to blame the company for
> enforcing its intellectual property rights.  That's what patents are for
> in the first place."
>
> False. What patents are for in the first place is to stimulate
> inventiveness for the public good.
>
> At any rate, an interesting article. Wonder what move anyone can make
> without infringing one patent or another!
>
> Henry
>
>
> On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 15:04, John J. Deneen wrote:
> >   Does SBC have a patent that will allow them to charge you for having a 
> > web page? Maybe, says Bob:
> >
> > How I, Cringely Readers Can Overturn an Unpopular Patent
> >
> > By Robert X. Cringely
> >
> > This column is about U.S. patent 5,933,841, which was granted to the old 
> > Ameritech phone company in 1999, and is now owned by Ameritech's 
> > acquirer,SBC Communications.  It is a patent you will be hearing more 
> > about because nearly every modern web page appears to violate it, maybe 
> > even this one.  I HATE when that happens! ... more
> > <http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030123.html>
> >