[Sigia-l] "best bets": trademarked? other names?

[Richard Wiggins]

I suspect the remark was intended to be somehow ironic, but the Access
conference is a really outstanding event involving leading library and IT
folks in Canada, and presenters/attendees include folks like Rosenfeld,
Bray, Cliff Lynch, Roy Tennant, ...  It's small and focused but hardly
obscure.  Prior publication is prior publication...

And certainly it would be ridiculous to classify something along these lines
implemented at Apple in the same time frame as de minimis.  Prior art is
prior art, no matter how obscure the source; and Apple is not obscure.

At this point I think we have on this mailing list a concern that perhaps
the best bets concept might be patented, and the term "Best Bets" might be
trademarked.

We don't have any evidence of either, so I propose we:

a) drop the thread 
b) or list other examples of prior usage
c) and encourage all our clients and contacts to implement the concept.

/rich 


On Mon, 30 September 2002, "Mary Wisnewski" wrote:

> 
> >Yeah, right. Pretend having held an obscure conference in some
forsaken 
> >place nobody's ever heard of and claim prior art. That's not gonna
fly. 
> >This is yet another attempt of Microsoft-bashing. They innovate all
the 
> >time, and then people steal their ideas.
> >:-)
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >Ziya
> 
> As covered in our previous thread on this topic...
> 
> I designed a system to do Quick Links/Hot Topics/Best Bets at Apple before
I
> left there in September 1998.  Lloyd Vancil coded it.  I'm pretty sure it
> was up & running by late 1997. 
> 
> The system was reviewd in Computer World, March 9, 1998 issue, p87,
"Search
> for the stars?" - a roundup review of corporate web site search
engines.
> The review says:
> "One of the best overall search engines we found was at Apple's site.
The
> impressive, unique "area match" featgure guided visitors to
general sections
> of interest as well as specific pages.  For example, a search for
"laptop"
> provided a link to the PowerBook areea of the site, as well as individual
> pages for specific PowerBook models."
> 
> I do fully understand that any work I might have done, especially at a
> company called "Apple", can never equal the greatness of
Microsoft's power
> to innovate.  And please... no comparisons between Apple and Sasketoon.  It
> hurts too much.
> 
> And sorry, I know this doesn't answer the question of whether this is
> actually patented and/or trademarked.  Only that it was done before, has
> many names, and is about the most useful feature you can add to your site
> search.
> 
> -mary
> --
> Mary Wisnewski			Information Architect
> mwisnews at nortelnetworks.com	Nortel Networks
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