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  • Feb 10th, 2012 @ 2:16pm

    First time commenter, long time reader

    Hey, Mike. Thanks for the link. Glad to have finally met you in person at the State of the Net conference last month.

    I wondered how many people would take note of that detail, which came from an interview about the case with a trustworthy source who'd been following it quite closely for years.

    In 1995, I was a sophomore in college and learning how to use HTML and an FTP app to put a web page online. I logged onto a BBS in 1993. In 1994, I fired up a Web browser for the first time.

    While that does make me an early adopter, in some respects, I was surprised to hear that the USPTO didn't do more due diligence online.

    When I used the word "interesting" in my post, readers no doubt could not see me ruefully shaking my head.

    While the Internet access issue from a government building is not novel in that time period, enough citizens and certainly government employees were logging on at that point that an examiner could have walked over to a library, study or school to do a search and find Viola.

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