Corporate fury over one man's claim to own the technology for fixing Y2K computer glitches appears to have prompted a rare U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Commissioner-ordered review of the patent. The computer software patent is owned by Californian Bruce Dickens. Commissioner Q. Todd Dickinson called for the review "after the discovery of information that was not considered when the patent was originally examined and granted," according to the order.
January 06, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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Corporate fury over one man’s claim to own the technology for fixing Y2K computer glitches appears to have prompted a rare, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Commissioner-ordered review of the patent.
On Dec. 21, the PTO announced that Q. Todd Dickinson ordered a reexamination of U.S. Patent No. 5,806,063. The computer software patent, “Date Formatting and Sorting for Dates Spanning the Turn of the Century,” is owned by Californian Bruce Dickens.
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