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A belated look at the Red Hat/Firestar patent settlement

A belated look at the Red Hat/Firestar patent settlement

Posted Jul 3, 2008 5:57 UTC (Thu) by keith105 (guest, #52760)
Parent article: A belated look at the Red Hat/Firestar patent settlement

If someone needs help in overturning this patent, you should contact me, Keith Hankin (email
addr keith105@yahoo.com).

I have a patent in my name for precisely this sort of object-relational mapping technology
from the days when I worked at Netscape: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6912520.html

The technology described in this patent was developed with Java in 1998-1999, however the
patent wasn't filed for another year or two after that.

In addition, I developed similar object-relational mapping technology about 5 years earlier
(in C rather than Java) for another company called Uniteq Application Systems. However in that
case, no patent was ever filed for.


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