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BLOG@IP::JURPatent Attorney Axel H Horns' Blog on Intellectual Property Law.
Thursday, February 22, 2007OHIM: Lessons Still to be Learnt in Establishing Compatibility For On-Line Filings.From the OHIM Newticker page:"[...] The OHIM is evaluating the compatibility of its e-business services with the new version of Internet Explorer (version 7). Proper functioning of those services is at present only guaranteed with Internet Explorer version 6 and Netscape 6.2. [...]"This really appears to be sub-standard performance of OHIM. Perhaps one day the persons responsible for the IT infrastructure at the OHIM might be inclined to consider that it never can be a good idea to design, implement and deploy an IT customer interface on the basis of some proprietary functions in the applicant's software. It looks as if some OHIM Officials together with their web designers who have been in charge with the development of the current OHIM e-filing facilities have been obsessed by a vision of transposing the filling-in of conventional OHIM forms in a 1:1 fashion to an electronic counterpart, thereby relying on special particularities of the CSS and/or JavaScript implementation in selected browsers. Such strategy is doomed to fail from the very beginning because it is absolutely clear that the line of browser development will ever continue without a standstill. And, it would even be dangerous in view of security issues for applicants and/or their representatives to maintain outdated versions of browsers just in order to do e-filings with OHIM. Perhaps somebody at OHIM should have a closer look at e-commerce systems like Amazon or Ebay which are really successful and which do not require the utilisation of outdated browser versions. Preferably the OHIM e-filing facility might be entirely re-written on the basis of open standards, i.e. HTML 4.x (or XHTML) and CSS as approved by W3C.Technorati Tags: OHIM
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