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Who ever said the battle against software patents was won?! http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/02/23/balthaser_rich_media_patent/ "The US Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) has awarded Balthaser Online a patent covering "methods, systems and processes for the design and creation of rich-media applications via the internet". Quite a broad award." applications .. i.e. software. Another clear example of how the US patent system is NOT the model we need for the EU. Also a demonstration that US patents, no matter how inapplicable they may or may not be in the EU and elsewhere, will have a real impact on all internet users. "According to Balthaser, its patent covers all rich media technology implementations including Adobe/Macromedia's Flash and Flex, Sun Microsystems' Java, the community-developed AJAX and XAML, and all device footprints which access "rich-media internet applications", including desktops, mobile devices, set-top-boxes and video game consoles." RIP Web 2.0? Reminiscent of BT's hyperlink patent - it deserves the same fate too. Will the big guns pay up (leaving the AJAX community in the cold) or fight? Watch this space. Maybe, just maybe, this parasitic company has taken on too many large corporate interests in one hit. If the affected parties work together, maybe we could all win against aggressive patent holding companies. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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