Re: [Bodington-developers] 'Prior art' dates

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The first event recorded in the Bodington database at Leeds is dated 20th
August 1997.  (Thanks Mike).

Aggie

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From: bod...@li...
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Paul Davis
Sent: 31 July 2006 13:26
To: 'Bodington developers'
Subject: Re: [Bodington-developers] 'Prior art' dates

Indeed, when I took a quick look at the patent a major part was having 3
defined roles.  Moodle may have a problem, but I think Bodington doesn't do
things this way at all due to access rights so we should be clear.
Rgearding prior art, the patent was filed in 1999, so Bod instances before
then would be relavant.

Paul

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% -----Original Message-----
% From: bod...@li...
% [mailto:bod...@li...] On Behalf Of
% Jon Maber
% Sent: 31 July 2006 13:09
% To: Bodington developers
% Subject: Re: [Bodington-developers] 'Prior art' dates
%
% The open source license was added to all source files on the 1st June
% 2001.
%
% The important part of the patent is the list of claims at the end and to
% my mind the first half a dozen simply describe a file system with a web
% interface so the major prior art is WebDAV.  Limiting access to the file
% system based on three different roles is to my mind a subset of the
% functionality of a WebDAV client  and server.
%
% Jon
%
%
% Jon Maber wrote:
% > The evidence will be in the CVS records since they date back to before
% > the release of the code.
% > I'll have a look.
% >
% > Jon
% >
% > Paul Trafford wrote:
% >
% >> Hi All,
% >>
% >> Am appending a couple of notes from Richard Treves from Southampton
% >> University re establishing 'prior art' in response to the Blackboard
% >> patent.  Jon/Aggie, it would be good if you could provide some dates
% for
% >> the bodington.org site (history page at:
% >> http://bodington.org/history.php) and the online learning history wiki
% >> (http://docs.moodle.org/en/Online_Learning_History) at Moodle ?
% >>
% >> Incidentally, can anyone read Icelandic?
% >> http://sfjalar.net/?p=302
% >>
% >> Regards,
% >>
% >> Paul
% >>
% >> -----------------------------------------------------------------
% >> Paul Trafford
% >> WebLearn Administrator
% >> Oxford University Computing Services
% >> pau...@ou...
% >> 01865 83429
% >>
% >> Coming soon ... the next WebLearn release due on: 15 August 2006
% >> http://www.weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/info/announce/plan/
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% >> -------- Original Message --------
% >>
% >> Subject: [rt.oucs.ox.ac.uk #982893] Message From Bodington.org -
% >> Boddington History
% >> Date:     Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:07:00 +0100
% >> From: Richard Treves (pen...@gm...)  from Southampton Univeristy
% >> sent the following message: via RT <web...@rt...>
% >>
% >> Hi, I\'m into Moodle, With the recent publishing of the Blackboard
% >> patent its apparent we need to gather information of \'prior art\' in
% >> order to defend ourselves against legal action (outside of the UK at
% >> this point, but the law may change in the future). Boddington predates
% >> the patent, your published history of Boddington is very useful in this
% >> regard but would be more so if someone could add some dates, I imagine
% >> this would be useful to you and us.
% >>
% >> Thanks for your consideration
% >>
% >> Rich
% >>
% >>
% >> -------- Original Message --------
% >>
% >> Subject:     Re: [rt.oucs.ox.ac.uk #982893] Message From Bodington.org
% - Boddington History
% >> Date:     Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:17:25 +0100
% >> From:     Richard Treves via RT <web...@rt...>
% >> Reply-To:     web...@rt...
% >> To:     'AdminCc of rt.oucs.ox.ac.uk Ticket #982893':;
% >>
% >> < ... >
% >>
% >> The thread over at moodle.org is here
% >>
% >> http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=50597
% >>
% >> and there is a wiki collecting online history, I've added Bodington
% (one
% >> d!) but didn't want to expand as I didn't have the dates
% >>
% >> http://docs.moodle.org/en/Online_Learning_History
% >>
% >>
% >>
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