[JDEV] Slashdot article on IM Bots patent
Peter Saint-Andre
stpeter at jabber.org
Thu Aug 15 15:58:26 CDT 2002
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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