Geoworks and their patent

[Terje Norderhaug]

At 9:47 AM 1/23/00, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
>Their stock price has gone from $2 to $40 in the last two months. The rise
>seems to be based on expectations of a large royalty stream from this
>patent.
>
>I see no mention of wireless in the patent, yet they appear to only be
>applying the patent to WAP. It looks to me like a generic patent on the
>concept of stylesheets.

It seems more like the patent is on using object oriented design patterns
to decouple the presentational aspects of a user interface from the
underlying data and application. I'd sell my stock tomorrow if I had any...

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