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Endeca's patent and the potential impact on innovation in libraries?Created by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on May 26, 2006
Any ideas about what Endeca's patent covering guided navigation means for innovation in the library sector and elsewhere? I believe that I read that the eXtensible Catalog (XC) project had hoped to create similar functionality ... and what about SIMILE (and the semantic web more broadly)? I haven't read the patent filing yet, but it should make for interesting fodder for discussion going forward.
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One would think that NCSU´s agreement with Endeca would cover this contingency.Endeca protected its intellectual property with a patent, all well and good.Perhaps NCSU has retained its rights to its contribution to the catalog Endeca helped (critical phrase here) for the taxpayers of North Carolina, through their public university?The little I know about patent law is that a patent is granted to protect a particular expression of an idea in the form of a product, not the idea itself. Whether this will help or hinder badly-needed innovation in the ILS market is anybody´s guess.
Patent law is complicated! I'm not sure whether short statements of what a patent covers help. But I'm more puzzled about how an Endeca patent affects NCSU.
Did I miss a post?