[chemweb] Changes to the way chemical content is viewed in Web pages

[E.L. Willighagen]

On Tuesday 21 October 2003 20:58, Rzepa, Henry wrote:
> The  site http://www.rnsoft.com/products/iewebfix/
>
> describes a "fix" to Web pages necessitated by a court case  Microsoft
> has recently lost.  Apparently it dates back to a patent on  "in-lined"
> content of the type produced in Web browsers by the  <DEFANGED_object>,
> <DEFANGED_embed> and <DEFANGED_applet> pages. This patent was apparently
> infringed by Web browsers and Microsoft, is having to preface each
> invocation of such content by some sort of disclaimer. This will mean that
> pages having this sort of content will not display unless the reader
> dismisses these dialogs.

To which countries does this patent apply? USA only, or also Europa, and what 
about the rest of the world?

Egon

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