IBM Wep Page Templates Patent

[Karin Kosina]

Hi everybody,

    I guess most of you have seen this, but I would like to bring this
up here anyway... Can't believe the US PTO is really *that* stupid :((
Any comments?

IBM Patents Web Page Templates
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/17/005232

     [0]jalefkowit writes: "More follies from the [1]US Patent & Trademark
     Office ... now [2]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", based
     on "a plurality of pre-stored templates, comprising HTML formatting
     code, text, fields, and formulas" that are then customized through the
     process of asking the user a few questions. In other words, they've
     patented the ubiquitous wizards found in [3]FrontPage and other
     newbie-oriented HTML editors. This was submitted to the USPTO on June
     19, 1998 -- surely someone out there knows of prior art for this?"

Links
     0. mailto:jalefkowit at NOSPAMaol.com
     1. http://www.uspto.gov/
     2. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=10&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1=HTML&OS=HTML&RS=HTML
     3. http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/

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