IP: sounds like a bad decision by the patent office.....again

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 13:51:35 -0400
>From: Tim Finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
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>From:  Anupam Joshi <joshi@cs.umbc.edu>
>...
>Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:18:55 -0400 (EDT)
>From: "Thomas Hubbard" <hubbard@w3.org>
>To: www-mobile@w3.org
>Hi,
>
>I just got pointed to this link, it may be old news to you but I thought
>it deserved to be posted.
>
>..."U.S. patent office has conditionally allowed Cell-Loc to claim the
>delivery of handset-based wireless location content and services over
>the Internet as its property, regardless of technological method
>employed."
>
>http://www.cell-loc.com/mdnews/NR000516.html
>
>tom.