rough notes from

Eduardo Gutentag

Extreme IPR

No definition of "Reasonable" so we end up in WWACS = What Would a Court Say?

Silly patents - the gerbil shirt. 6,960,975 for the warp drive.

patents on style sheets, on schemas. Busiones methods = concatenation of two obvious things can be a business method. System encourages the maximum number of filings (funded by filing fees). Prior art should be cited and investigated, but in practice ....

Whatever happens in the US affects the rest of the world, by influence and by imitation. So the worldshould care about the US Patent system.

Now ok this poll is just a bit of fun, really, for Extreme attendees. But I am curious to see what a bunch of XML geeks say. The whole world can see the results, by the way.

Isn't it sad that, on arriving for a conference, one's first act is to get online in the hotel room and start doing the work one will not be able to do tomorrow because of the conference?

Or maybe, its not your first act, just mine.

And after a few hours, you look up from the screen at a hotel room that could be anywhere and briefly wonder what continent it is?

All of which is by way of saying, I'm here. Hi people.