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Story: Microsoft slammed over XML patent
Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 27 May 2005, 1:40 PM)
Whatever happened to prior art?
I worked as a patent clerk when I was younger, and most of our Patent Agents spent extreme amounts of time searching for conflicting Patents, or ensuring that the thing they were attempting to Patent could not be claimed to be obvious and in general use.
Whats with the US patent office, do they just take the money and rubber stamp everything these days? (they never used to)
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Story: Microsoft slammed over XML patent
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Where's the liability for awarding wrong patents? Arthur B. -
there is none
this spells the end for XML Anonymous
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Well, it's not the end of XML for storing obj... Cirilo Bernardo -
XML was born as a particular format for data stora... Anonymous
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It just seems people who review patents at patent... Roderick Klein
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Whatever happened to prior art?
I worked as a pate... Anonymous -
To be fair to the patent office in this case... Wookey
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The link in the article points to the wrong patent... Bill Price
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Thanks for pointing that out Bill. I have up... Ingrid Marson
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The United States Patent office merely takes the p... Thomas J. Mousseau
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I am sorry to disagree, as most people don't... John Washington
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geez louise... they're expecting folks to just see... c r vrij
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isn't a software company supposed to make mon... ivan tonchev
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Look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sxp - isn'... Anonymous
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I worked for Bowstreet. We were serializing commu... Anonymous
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Would this mean that C++ or other programming lang... Anonymous
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At this rate, I soon will not be able to init... S. Johnson
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It's a variable. Could represent anythin... Chris -
I know the US patent system is based on grant firs... Andrew Evans
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