Re: [xml-dev] Prior Art For Microsoft's XUL Patent Wanted

From
Rick Jelliffe <>
To
Gerald Bauer <>
Date
2003-12-16T02:27:04Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Prior Art For Microsoft's XUL Patent Wanted
Gerald Bauer wrote:

>Hi,
>
>  If you missed the news the United States Patent and
>Trademark Office (uspto.gov) just granted Microsoft a
>patent on XUL. See the XUL News Wire Story @
>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.xul.announce/187
>for details.
>  
>
This does not seem to be a patent on XULs in general. It seems to be a 
patent on
running HTML outside a "browser", e.g. using HTML as a layout manager.
(Of course, it should not have been granted: apparantly when the .COM 
bubble burst
it scattered crapulous patents everywhere.)

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe