[Legal] Fw: [midgard-dev] Repligard and filetemplates as prior art for recent Microsoft patent on XML?

[Alexander Bokovoy]

Пересылаю и сюда, может быть и вам будет интересно.

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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:39:18 +0200
From: Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy на sam-solutions.net>
To: dev на midgard-project.org
Subject: [midgard-dev] Repligard and filetemplates as prior art for recent Microsoft patent on XML?

Greetings!

Microsoft has recently been granted a patent 6,687,897 by USPTO on
2004/02/03. While looking at

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=9&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=ptxt&S1=Microsoft.ASNM.&OS=AN/Microsoft&RS=AN/Microsoft

I found that it was filed on December 1st, 2000. The patent itself looks
very similar to what is implemented in Midgard as Repligard file format
and FileTemplates, two features which were developed in 2000 by Midgard
developers Emiliano Heyns and myself.

Filetemplates were added into CVS on 2000/07/17 and Repligard
implementation is first mentioned in the lib/ChangeLog on 2000/07/05 while
discussions of the format and operation dated early 2000 -- we even had
test implementation by Jukka Zitting early in February, 2000.

Move of Repligard into lib-midgard was done by me on 2000/11/28.

We need to be careful here but it looks like some of their claims in that
patent do have prior art in our own work for Midgard.
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/ Alexander Bokovoy
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