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Story: Microsoft slammed over XML patent
Posted by: Andrew Evans (Thursday 9 June 2005, 12:46 AM)
I know the US patent system is based on grant first, argue and make lawyers rich second - but the spirit of the all patent law states that prior art must be taken into account.
Well Microsofts pathetic attempt to again patent the existing has violated that premise. There are numerous examples of prior art for serializing objects to XML from Sun's JavaBean XML serialization to SXP hosted on SourceForge. There are so many example including one I wrote myself about 5 years ago.
Unless patents can be enforced as they were intended, there is little point in them being used to prop up already mighty and agressive organizations - a complete violation of the intention of patents (to allow inventors to do something with their invention before the big boys try to stomp all over them like the school bulley).
Full Talkback thread
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
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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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