Hi,

On 16 Aug, 2006, at 10:43, Malcolm Tyrrell wrote:

I tried sending this yesterday, but I messed up the subject line, so I think it may have been spam-filtered:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4790485.stm

Malcolm.

We have been discussing this here at UCD, especially given that the technology on which Henry McLoughlin's[1] (CCed) company was started (now called TopClass and supported by WBT systems[2]) was initiated in a 1994-ish timeframe.

We are reading the patent at the moment and I have encouraged Henry to get involved in the anti-patent discussions and investigations going on in this space as his work will likely quash many of the claims in their patent.

Best, Joe --- Joseph Kiniry School of Computer Science and Informatics UCD Dublin http://secure.ucd.ie/ http://srg.cs.ucd.ie/

[1] http://www.csi.ucd.ie/Staff/AcademicStaff/hbmc/ [2] http://www.wbtsystems.com/