en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/632617 Comments by AffableAl http://www.markevanstech.com/2009/08/12/toronto-company-kills-word-sales/#IDComment30821385 The <a href="http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2008\/PER-xml-20080205\/" target="_blank">XML spec</a> says: &quot;XML was developed by an XML Working Group (originally known as the SGML Editorial Review Board) formed under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in <b>1996</b>&quot;. I was surprised to find out that patent <a href="http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser\?Sect2=PTO1&amp\;Sect2=HITOFF&amp\;p=1&amp\;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&amp\;r=1&amp\;f=G&amp\;l=50&amp\;d=PALL&amp\;RefSrch=yes&amp\;Query=PN%2F5787449" target="_blank">5787449</a> was filed on June 2, <b>1994</b>. The patent sounds alot like a description of XML to me. Seems like i4i could go after alot of companies that make tools that display xml documents in formats other than plain text. Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:18:05 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2009/08/12/toronto-company-kills-word-sales/#IDComment30821385