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Old 09-02-2010
Finally We Get to Read the Mobility Assets Sale Agreement with Darl McBride

Darl's purchase of the mobility assets was all done pretty much in the dark. We, the public were told one thing in advance, but something else after the fact. But now we get to see the final agreement.
Darl and Me Inc Holdings LLC, Darl's LLC, got not only the copyrights but a patent application as well, including rights to sue for any past infringement. The patent is entitled "Systems and Methods for Providing Distributed Applications and Services for Intelligent Mobile Devices," and the application was filed in 2006, #11/533347. We were told in advance of the sale that this patent application was excluded, but then he got it anyway.
What was SCO thinking, I was asking myself as I read the agreement? I could just see it: "Darl sues Google's Android". Why not? Everyone else and his dog is. Of course there's some prior art on that method of making fast, easy money. Seriously, though, if you check the transaction history for this patent application with the USPTO's PAIR system, what you learn is fascinatingly funny.
At the time of the sale in April, the patent application was still working its way through the system. There was a non-final rejection notice that issued in January of 2010, which presumably Darl knew about if he did any due diligence. In July, post-sale, there was a request for more time to answer that notice and then they filed a reply. But on August 17, there was a final notice of rejection anyway of claims 1-17 and 19-20. Prior art and obviousness. Claim 18 had been "withdrawn from consideration" so the rejection was not only final but total. Darl has 3 months to reply, and, in some conceivable convoluted drag-it-out process the rejection outlines, it could last six months, tops. But it looks like Darl bought a pig in a poke.
And some of you say there is no God.

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Mojo::URL(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					    Mojo::URL(3pm)

NAME
Mojo::URL - Uniform Resource Locator SYNOPSIS
use Mojo::URL; # Parse my $url = Mojo::URL->new('http://sri:foobar@kraih.com:3000/foo/bar?foo=bar#23'); say $url->scheme; say $url->userinfo; say $url->host; say $url->port; say $url->path; say $url->query; say $url->fragment; # Build my $url = Mojo::URL->new; $url->scheme('http'); $url->userinfo('sri:foobar'); $url->host('kraih.com'); $url->port(3000); $url->path('/foo/bar'); $url->path('baz'); $url->query->param(foo => 'bar'); $url->fragment(23); say $url; DESCRIPTION
Mojo::URL implements a subset of RFC 3986 and RFC 3987 for Uniform Resource Locators with support for IDNA and IRIs. ATTRIBUTES
Mojo::URL implements the following attributes. "authority" my $authority = $url->authority; $url = $url->authority('root:pass%3Bw0rd@localhost:8080'); Authority part of this URL. "base" my $base = $url->base; $url = $url->base(Mojo::URL->new); Base of this URL. "fragment" my $fragment = $url->fragment; $url = $url->fragment('foo'); Fragment part of this URL. "host" my $host = $url->host; $url = $url->host('127.0.0.1'); Host part of this URL. "port" my $port = $url->port; $url = $url->port(8080); Port part of this URL. "scheme" my $scheme = $url->scheme; $url = $url->scheme('http'); Scheme part of this URL. "userinfo" my $userinfo = $url->userinfo; $url = $url->userinfo('root:pass%3Bw0rd'); Userinfo part of this URL. METHODS
Mojo::URL inherits all methods from Mojo::Base and implements the following new ones. "new" my $url = Mojo::URL->new; my $url = Mojo::URL->new('http://127.0.0.1:3000/foo?f=b&baz=2#foo'); Construct a new Mojo::URL object. "clone" my $url2 = $url->clone; Clone this URL. "ihost" my $ihost = $url->ihost; $url = $url->ihost('xn--bcher-kva.ch'); Host part of this URL in punycode format. # "xn--da5b0n.net" Mojo::URL->new('http://X.net')->ihost; "is_abs" my $success = $url->is_abs; Check if URL is absolute. "parse" $url = $url->parse('http://127.0.0.1:3000/foo/bar?fo=o&baz=23#foo'); Parse URL. "path" my $path = $url->path; $url = $url->path('/foo/bar'); $url = $url->path('foo/bar'); $url = $url->path(Mojo::Path->new); Path part of this URL, relative paths will be appended to the existing path, defaults to a Mojo::Path object. # "http://mojolicio.us/DOM/HTML" Mojo::URL->new('http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojo')->path('/DOM/HTML'); # "http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/DOM/HTML" Mojo::URL->new('http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojo')->path('DOM/HTML'); # "http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojo/DOM/HTML" Mojo::URL->new('http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojo/')->path('DOM/HTML'); "query" my $query = $url->query; $url = $url->query(replace => 'with'); $url = $url->query([merge => 'with']); $url = $url->query({append => 'to'}); $url = $url->query(Mojo::Parameters->new); Query part of this URL, defaults to a Mojo::Parameters object. # "2" Mojo::URL->new('http://mojolicio.us?a=1&b=2')->query->param('b'); # "http://mojolicio.us?a=2&c=3" Mojo::URL->new('http://mojolicio.us?a=1&b=2')->query(a => 2, c => 3); # "http://mojolicio.us?a=2&b=2&c=3" Mojo::URL->new('http://mojolicio.us?a=1&b=2')->query([a => 2, c => 3]); # "http://mojolicio.us?b=2" Mojo::URL->new('http://mojolicio.us?a=1&b=2')->query([a => undef]); # "http://mojolicio.us?a=1&b=2&a=2&c=3" Mojo::URL->new('http://mojolicio.us?a=1&b=2')->query({a => 2, c => 3}); "to_abs" my $abs = $url->to_abs; my $abs = $url->to_abs(Mojo::URL->new('http://kraih.com/foo')); Clone relative URL and turn it into an absolute one. "to_rel" my $rel = $url->to_rel; my $rel = $url->to_rel(Mojo::URL->new('http://kraih.com/foo')); Clone absolute URL and turn it into a relative one. "to_string" my $string = $url->to_string; Turn URL into a string. SEE ALSO
Mojolicious, Mojolicious::Guides, <http://mojolicio.us>. perl v5.14.2 2012-09-05 Mojo::URL(3pm)
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