Re: [Patents] Instant Messaging bot patent

[Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis@tinet.org>]

El Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 08:44:06PM +0200, Sylvain Perchaud deia:
> ActiveBuddy, a company producing Instant Messaging bots, was granted a
> very broad patent on IM bot technology.
> 
> US Patent: US6430602
> <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P
> arser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-
> bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00
> &s1=activebuddy&OS=activebuddy&RS=activebuddy>
> 
> We don't know yet if the company filed the same patent in Europe.
> 
> 

I've tried looking for US6430602 in the second search box in 
http://ep.espacenet.com , but no luck. There is nothing under ;
"equivalents".

Anyway, it was filled in the US in August 22nd 2000 IIRC, and granted
in August 6th 2002. This might mean it was filled in EPO in August
22nd 2001 (to take advantage of the 1 year priority) and may still be
in tramit. But I think they publish applications after one year of filling, 
so it might be published later this August. 

So I think we should repeat the search at the end of august/early september.
Of course it might be filled in an unconnected way, or it might have been 
filled first in the EPO, etc. etc.  

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Xavi Drudis Ferran
xdrudis@tinet.org