{"id":242,"date":"2006-12-01T13:18:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T17:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/wordpress\/?p=242"},"modified":"2011-12-17T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T16:21:33","slug":"patent-re-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2006\/12\/patent-re-examination\/","title":{"rendered":"Patent Re-examination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The patent re-examination has been filed and things are starting to happen.  Here are some URLs:<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.softwarefreedom.org\/news\/20061130a.html target=_new>THE SFLC Release<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.sakaiproject.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=481&#038;Itemid=312 target=_new>The Sakai FAQ<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/October82006\/12077 target=_new>Educause Letter to BlackBoard<\/a> (Scroll to the bottom)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t have much else to say beyond the FAQ and the press release.  I am glad to be moving forward.  The patent clearly was pretty poor.<br \/>\nBefore the filing, I write a few posts about patents that allowed me to comment in an allegorical style without revealing what was being discussed or the strategy\/approach being used by the SFLC.<br \/>\nThese are from my earlier blog:<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/000202.html>http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/000202.html<\/a><br \/>\nThe implication is that a proper patent when filed goes to some length to find prior art.<br \/>\nI also wrote a blog post about the notion of software patents in general using the Boyer-Moore search as an example of how an idea should not be patented and how patents can be filed around an idea without patenting an idea.<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/000201.html>http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/000201.html<\/a><br \/>\nThis was not as strong but is an interesting take on things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The patent re-examination has been filed and things are starting to happen. Here are some URLs: THE SFLC Release The Sakai FAQ Educause Letter to BlackBoard (Scroll to the bottom)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}