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USPTO asks for 'prior art,' says it will re-examine Compton's multimedia patent. (US Patent and Trademark Office, Compton's New Media patent)
Software Industry Report, January, 1994
The Interactive Multimedia Association (IMA) of Annapolis, Md., has been informed that the US Patent and Trademark Office will consider additional "prior art" from the public during upcoming reexaminations of the highly controversial "multimedia" patent issued to Compton's New Media last year.
Patent Office policy has been that the patent owner, namely Compton's, could file additional prior art -- information upon which a patent examiner bases his decision to issue a patent -- during any reexamination process.
"This is a surprising and totally unprecedented departure from normal Patent Office procedure," says IMA Executive Director Philip Dodds. But he said the Patent Office pointedd out in a letter to IMA that the only material that may be used...
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