It's a wonder that the patents where even approved in the first place. Any of the other players (like the ones in Japan) could easily contest the patents, citing 'prior art' I find it quite ridiculous how patents are issued willy nilly for applications that are typically developed using open source code and have already been disclosed to the public. Doe sthe USPTO do any research at all?Received on Fri Feb 3 13:17:39 2006