Re: [idn] NSI Multilingual Testbed Information (fwd)

[James Seng <James@Seng.cc>]

I spoke to Jason Poulis before (the guy who patented) and asked our
lawyers to do some checks.

Jason's patent is basically Martin's Draft in 1997. All the patent
claims are in conflict with some prior work somewhere else, including
Martin I-D and another Apple patent on encoding scheme etc.

While RACE or UTF-5 may be be related to Jason patent, it is not a
concern from our lawyers point of view.

-James Seng

Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> 
> At 8:04 AM -0400 8/25/00, J. William Semich wrote:
> >  And, as I mentioned in Pittsburgh
> >as well as on this list, some parts of RACE may be covered by a patent
> >granted to someone who is not even participating in this working group,
> 
> The patent abstract you posted to this list on June 16 appears
> completely unrelated to RACE. RACE does not rely on a pseudo-root.
> RACE does not use hexadecimal encoding. I am not a lawyer, so there
> may be parts that relate to RACE, but no one has shown that any part
> of the patent applies to RACE.
> 
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --Internet Mail Consortium