[JDEV] Slashdot article on IM Bots patent

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Yeah, there's plenty of prior art on this. I don't think they have a leg
to stand on. But then neither did Amazon. Hey, isn't ESR on the advisory
committee to the Patent Office now?

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.html

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Gallo, Felix S. wrote:

> The University of Illinois PLATO system had chatbots in at
> least 1982 -- probably more like 1978.
> 
> Felix
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ben Schumacher [mailto:ben at blahr.com] 
> > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 1:26 PM
> > To: jdev at jabber.org
> > Subject: Re: [JDEV] Slashdot article on IM Bots patent
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > > The scary thing is, these people were actively applying their 
> > > technology to use over Jabber at one point (not sure if they still 
> > > are) -- talk about bad faith.
> > >
> > > Peter
> > 
> > /me is pretty sure that ChatBot would serve as prior art -- 
> > if it was built before August of 2000 (which I believe it was).
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > bs.
> > 
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