[Fsfe-ie] BBC website article: Patent battle over teaching tools

[Joseph Kiniry]

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
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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/>