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Story: Microsoft frowned at for smiley patent
Posted by: Tom Olszewski (Tuesday 26 July 2005, 5:52 PM)
The first claim must be read as a whole. It requires all those items to enable the invention, that is, the reconstruction of the image at its destination site. There would be no custom emoticon unless a user created one. This MUST be in the first claim.
I hope everyone understands this is only for CUSTOM emoticons and does not effect the selection of standard emoticons, as we all know today. Furthermore, the USPTO examines every patent application and if an invention has been done prior, it will not be allowed and/or the claims will be narrowed to this specific invention.
Also, MS has many IP attorneys on staff, one of which reviewed this amongest all the prior art. Obviously, according to the research, there is nothing similar. Otherwise, MS would not waste its resources to file and prosecute this.
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Story: Microsoft frowned at for smiley patent
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That language parsing patent's only technical aspe... Trevor Simms -
Perhaps Microsoft should apply for copyright... Dave Stover -
Microsoft did think the internet would grow to wha... robobright
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This is the kind of shit I want to keep out of Eur... Samuel,UK
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Well said, Samuel,UK
wasn't there somthing ab... JhonSmith
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Microsoft is dead. Software Patents are dead. The... Still Balates
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Screw Microsoft. Actions like these are why the te... Joey A.
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I wondered how this differed from what a lot of op... Richard
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The item you link to is a patent application, not... Anonymous
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What's next? Microsoft attempts to patent fonts an... Last Angelman
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that sort of shit gives me a microsofton! kapster
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I think Microsoft is lacking talent, thats why the... Anonymous
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A true technical innovation (not)
At first I thoug... Anonymous
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PRIOR ART -- what Microsoft is patenting has alrea... Randolf Richardson
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If microsolf truly does patent this, I hope that a... Anonymous
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... for me just another very good reason to defina... Lothar Velling
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Dont the patents office have some form of prosecut... Tony
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Is it April 1 ? John Sims
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Huh, say what? If a technique has been used "widel... Michiel NL
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Hey, I think I'll just patent the alphabet and mak... Anonymous
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Of course as usual the article writer and anti-M$... Jason M. Knight
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The primary claim for the patent application... Ingrid Marson
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The first claim must be read as a whole.... Tom Olszewski -
The problem is the US patent laws. They are simply... Beast
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A couple of points regarding the article post... Lonnie E. Holder
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Another commentor stated that pharmaceutical... Lonnie E. Holder
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I agree with Microsoft !!!! Apple sucks Anonymous
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Microsoft can patent smilies? Oh, I forgot. Micros... Kinney
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I think it's crazy, trying to own everything. Inte... Anonymous
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so patent for using FONTS will be next...
after al... Dustie
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Wtf, those guys are gonna make us change the names... Adam
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This has been up for consideration for a year and... Nik
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Gee. I can include whatever image in whatever mes... Arthur B.
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hahahahahahahhahahahahaahahaha omg...
this will in... d34d
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One of my forefathers invented the kiss and fart.... Ken Davies
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SH**! I just realised that Microsoft may be able t... Ken Davies
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Can't blame them for doing something that the gove... Peter Ritchie
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It seems that people are continuing to miss t... Lonnie E. Holder
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Microsoft,
please please don't ty this.
Yahoo use... Anonymous
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Well back in 1968 I did create a 'Smiley Face' bad... Chris Dunne
