[Sussex] Simple points of view !

[Mark Harrison]

They filed for that patent on the 6th December 1996....

The fact that others have been doing it in between filling and award doesn't
stop it being granted. Indeed, a key difference between the US Patent system
and the UK one is that, in the US, you're allowed to RELEASE an "invention"
and still apply for a patent up to a year after the information you released
went public... in the UK, you have to file first.

Regards,

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Simple points of view !


> Quoting nik at wired4life.org:
> >  I saw this
> >
> >
>
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=6,632,248.WKU.&OS=PN/6,632,248&RS=PN/6,632,248
> >
> >  I hate that.....
>
> This isn't a new Idea, I've been serving custom pages to people for ages
on a
> few of the websites I used to run! When I started programming on the web
in ASP
> 2.0 about 4 years ago, I was writing completely customisable front pages
using
> cookies to store the data, then databases.
>
> my.yahoo.com has been doing this, how can they claim they invented it
within the
> last few days, or have I missed something??
>
> Matt