Sorry scratch that last message. It was a bit early and I shouldn't have
skimmed the mail, pending seems to be the keyword in the mail... therefore
there won't be anything on the IBM DB for patents.
Still if anyone is interested checking out the contents of the patents etc.
have a look at the following link - they include abstracts for Japan's
patents.
http://www.delphion.com/
Sorry again ;-)
Stuart
Titech
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart MacDonald" <stuart@fs.catv.ne.jp>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 7:30 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: FunMail patent?
> Check it out through the free ibm Patent database.... um, that is if they
> took out patent in the U.S., I am not sure if they cover the Japan region
> patents. Anyway there is a lot of interesting reads in the DB and the
claims
> are about the first thing that you get to see.
>
> -stuart
> Titech
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mika Tuupola" <tuupola@appelsiini.net>
> To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 6:17 AM
> Subject: (keitai-l) FunMail patent?
>
>
> >
> > The article
> >
> > http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010112/funmail.html
> >
> > mentions "FunMail uses the unique, patent pending, language
> > independent text-to-animation technology developed by FunMail,
> > Inc."
> >
> > Does anyone know what this patent will hold? Due to many trivial
> > software patents approved lately I hope this wont be anything
> > trivial like "animation based on the user input".
> >
> > --
> > Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
> >
> >
> > [ Did you check the archives? http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/ ]
> >
> >
>
>
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>
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Received on Mon Jan 15 02:12:01 2001