[thelist] [News] IBM patents site templates

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Also on /.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/17/005232&mode=thread

However, I can't see IBM successfully closing down the entire content
management system industry - and if they tried, there is plenty of prior
art anyway (prior to the patent filing, not just prior to it being approved).

Cheers
Martin




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 From Slashdot:

"IBM has been awarded US Patent #6,304,886 for software that automatically
"generates [a] customized Web site without the Web site creator writing any
HTML or other programming code"

http://makeashorterlink.com/?E2914361

The US Patent & Trademark Office just keeps touching new highs on the
imbecility scale :(



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