Vertical Computer Systems Inc (fka VCSY)

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Courtesy of AuthorArnsley01, Raging bull #327824:

Emily Patent Status

It looks like it all boils down to the Request for Certified Examination 8-6-2012:
Remarks/Arguments: (My synopsis. I couldn't cut and paste) (We are waiting for a response, probably a certificate).

"Claims 1 and 28 have been amended, and claims 43-45 and 48-50 have been cancelled. Claims 1-31, 33, 35-37, 39,41, 42, 46 and 47 are pending. Applicant...respectfully requests reconsideration and full allowance of all pending claims."

As Vertical17 has mentioned in his referenced post 327560 below, the only remaining claim rejection of wording was in Claim 1 where originally it said in the last paragraph, ‘’Automatically manipulating the content of Markup Language Documents’’ has been changed to read ‘’Automatically determining by said processor when the step of storage is complete and, upon determining that the step of storage is complete, automatically modifying (not manipulating) the content of the Markup Language documents.

So we are waiting for the patent office to issue a certificate. It looks like the debate on all claims has been completed. Of the 50 original claims 9 have been withdrawn. The patent office is now holding only the 41 acceptable claims that they have reviewed over the past 11 years and not found any reason to disallow. So the slightly shortened list of 41 claims should all be approved.

That is perfect, considering, that in an infringement trial the judge at some point tells the patent holder to pick out the ten claims that he wants to prosecute in the coming trial. Say for example there are 22 claims infringed in a lawsuit and the patent holder narrows it down to ten for the court's docket, easy enough to do.

At the patent office there are still 41 claims under consideration for full allowance. Looks like VCSY hit a home run here even if the process did take 11 years and aged everyone involved by 20 years, including you and me, probably.

Vertical17 post yesterday: The interviewer comments are on the patent pair site for Emily which is back to life. It looks like the semantics came down to changing one word...from manipulating to modifying. Did anyone else see that in the information posted

Vertical17 post 327696 this morning: Per dabbler's update on Emily Patent. She is off to the examiner for her yearly physical and all signs look like she will pass with flying colors
08-08-2012 Date Forwarded to Examiner
08-06-2012 Request for Continued Examination (RCE)
08-08-2012 Disposal for a RCE / CPA / R129
08-06-2012 Request for Extension of Time - Granted
08-06-2012 Workflow - Request for RCE - Begin
07-24-2012 Email Notification
07-24-2012 Mail Applicant Initiated Interview Summary
07-18-2012 Interview Summary- Applicant Initiated
03-05-2012 Electronic Review
03-05-2012 Email Notification
03-05-2012 Mail Final Rejection (PTOL - 326)
02-27-2012 Final Rejection

JonnyQwan post 327793 today: Emily Update: 08-08-2012
‘’Docketed New Case - Ready for Examination’’
We may FINALLY be within a few weeks of allowance!!!!!!!!
Emily appears ready to shine!!!!
The ‘’arguments/remarks in support’’ sure looked good, and addressed the issues that the Examiner agreed would clearly teach a process that was not taught in the prior art that was the conflict in previous attempts at allowance.

OTHER PATENT RELATED NEWS:
TexasStar post 327816 today: DAS – Domain Awareness System (Looks like it based on VCSY’s ResponseFlash a ‘744 patent based program.) ‘’The DAS was stitched together from other Microsoft products such as SharePoint...’’
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/08/08/the-nypd-is-microsofts-new-business-partner/?mod=yahoo_hs