[OpenID] The OpenID Patents and foaf prior art disclosures

[Story Henry]

On 30 Sep 2007, at 12:04, Peter Williams wrote:

>
> It made claims - as I recall - that URIs applied to identity/ 
> certifier discovery and authentication were the leap forward. The  
> patent examiner needs to be fired, else the inventors de-frauded  
> him/her by not supplying complete and obvious prior art.


I like the idea: fire patent examiners that don't do their job well,  
and sue people who make false claims. The fines should be really  
heft. That would quickly reduce the number of patents issues :-)

Henry
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