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Subject: Re: [APG] E: Ancestry Patent
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:09:34 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200711282013.lASKD2WT004582@host.grillsbypaulwall.com>


I certainly don't know much about patent law, but I agree with Craig.? On the surface, at least, it sounds like they are trying to patent logic.? Logic was invented a very long time ago!


-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Scott <>
To: 'Jim Liddil' <>;
Sent: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 2:13 pm
Subject: [APG] E: Ancestry Patent



If I read what they have invented, guys like Dick Pence and I have been
using these techniques for over thirty years to drill down into our personal
one-name study surname databases. There is neither magic here, nor anything
worthy of patent in my humble opinion.

We have been concatenating a person's name with a unique identify such as
birth date or name of spouse or some other discriminator (like "on Big
Creek") in order to shrink the size of our analysis pools for a very long
time.

It is a shame to see that they believe they have the right to this process.

It is like recently on the web I saw that someone had trademarked "White
Pages." I can't believe that was possible.


C.

Craig R. Scott, CG
President and CEO
Heritage Books, Inc.
65 East Main Street
Westminster, MD 21157
800 876-6103


2758 books in print and growing. Visit www.HeritageBooks.com

-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:] On Behalf
Of Jim Liddil
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:19 PM
To:
Subject: [APG] Ancestry Patent

Maybe of interest as to the direction of Ancestry. They filed the
patent worldwide.

What Ancestry is up to:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1
&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,249,129.PN.&OS=PN/7,249
,129&RS=PN/7,249,129





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