Posted on 02/11/2002 9:43:29 AM PST by Oxylus
Sorry, Laz, but I invented the letter T. We'll split the proceeds.
That's silly... Leters cant be patented, only copyrighted.
Seriously, if you don't renew a patent (and pay the maintance fee) it reverts to public domaine. I know, some of mine have...
Also, patents used to run for 17 years (now it's 20), and the patent is not valid if it was ever used before, or a discription ever published before the application was made. It is not common knowledge, but a patent search means nothing. You dont even have to have one made. It just protects you from wasting your money on patenting something that is in public domain.
If the patten supposedly expires in 2006, it would have to have been patented in 1989. When was the supposeed patent application?
This is a bunch of BUNK!
You owe me one dollar.
Bullsh*t.
Two dollars for using B in a profanity. Thank you for patronizing our fine letter!
It is loony to suggest that the inventor (if the patent were valid) would shut down the Internet. No, the inventor would collect a reasonable royalty for his innovation, during the patent term, and then it would thereafter be dedicated to the public, just as the framers intended. We don't deny patent rights for REALLY important inventions. We let the inventor set the price.
Not without my say-so -- I invented breathing.
No, it doesn't work. Rather than invoke legal costs of indeterminate amount, several companies have actually licensed Amazon's ludicrous "One-Click" patent.
There is prior art on hyperlinks going back to the 1960s, and a description of hypertext was published in 1945.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
So logically they only owe you half their money.
Did you or did you not invent the lettet "T"?
We're worried about you Laz...
HyperCard was one of the inspirations for the World Wide Web. Here is an article by the inventor of WWW (no, not Al Gore). Of course, 'hypertext' is a concept even older.
This document was an attempt to persuade CERN management that a global hypertext system was in CERN's interests. Note that the only name I had for it at this time was "Mesh" -- I decided on "World Wide Web" when writing the code in 1990.W3snip
"Hypertext" is a term coined in the 1950s by Ted Nelson [...], which has become popular for these systems, although it is used to embrace two different ideas. One idea (which is relevant to this problem) is the concept: "Hypertext": Human-readable information linked together in an unconstrained way.
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