RE: [xml-dev] Small company makes big claims on XML patents

Hi,

> The claims are:
> 
> [ ... snip ... ]

A question from a foreigner: in German patent law we have a notion of so
called "Erfindungshöhe" (literally "invention height"), which basically
means that your invention may not be completely trivial but must reach a
certain complexity to be patentable. 

Is there something comparable in American patent law?

Martin