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Microsoft frowned at for smiley patent
Talkback The USPTO does not disallow patent applications. The important thing is whether the application becomes a patent, for which the USPTO has a system. The USPTO is also attempting to make the system better.
[August 9, 2005, 15:04]
Microsoft slammed over XML patent
Talkback This link works for me: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser? If this link is not usable for you, this procedure should work: browse to http://www.uspto.gov/ click on Search click on Patent Number Search
[May 27, 2005, 23:55]
Patent absurdities are plain unsporting
Talkback Here's some examples for anyone not convinced that it is actually needed: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050520/0939226_F.shtml http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser? Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r...
[May 30, 2005, 18:38]
RIM cheers rejection of NTP patent
News The final rejection was posted on the USPTO's Web site for the NTP-held patent, which covers a system for sending emails over a wireless network to a mobile device. The USPTO has already issued non-final actions rejecting the claims in four out of...
[February 23, 2006, 8:15]
Patent absurdities are plain unsporting
Talkback The fact is that Patent Offices worldwide (well, the UKPO, EPO and USPTO at least) are just not doing their job properly; they fail to do proper prior art searches on examination and consequently grant patents for things that aren't original.
[May 31, 2005, 20:43]
Microsoft frowned at for smiley patent
Talkback The USPTO has "accepted" the patent application into the patent process. The USPTO normally does not decide whether to "accept" an application. The USPTO DOES decide whether the application will be allowed to issue as a patent, and this application...
[July 28, 2005, 15:08]
IBM leads US patent pack
Talkback Looking at the crappy quality of the average patent getting out the door of the USPTO and the European Patent Office you realy wonder how much effect such a database would have. It was after the petition at the USPTO the patent was withdrawn: http...
[January 16, 2006, 23:36]
OSDL patent project 'worse than nothing'
News This documentation can be used by the US Patents and Trademarks Office (USPTO) to show that patented concepts existed previously to the patent being issued, thus potentially invalidating the patent and reducing the danger of software patent lawsuits.
[September 19, 2006, 13:45]
US regulators look again at Eolas patent
News After Microsoft made public planned changes to IE that held the potential to break millions of Web sites, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) last month urged the USPTO to re-examine the so-called 906 patent in light of W3C technologies that it...
[November 12, 2003, 8:00]
Possible prior art for Microsoft XML patent found
News Microsoft wouldn't say whether it believed the SXP library was an example of prior art, but instead pointed enquiries towards the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). If there is prior art related to this patent, there is a process for third...
[June 2, 2005, 18:40]
Group aims to defend Linux from bad patents
News The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has opened up its patent-examination process to the Linux community for the first time for the Peer-To-Patent scheme. The community can participate in the USPTO's established process by supplying...
[February 4, 2009, 17:02]
Patent critics search for prior art
News In 1994, the USPTO rejected a patent for multimedia search technology from Compton's NewMedia on re-examination. The filing, from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), asks the USPTO to re-examine the Eolas patent in light of HTML+, which is...
[November 3, 2003, 11:25]
NTP woos US government in patent case
Talkback The USPTO is a very political organization who has a bad habit of carrying water for 900 pound guerrillas. This case has the USPTO afraid of political backlash. America's constitution confers property rights to authors and inventors.
[January 23, 2006, 2:34]
US govt to reconsider Microsoft patent
News The USPTO often grants re-examination requests, and they provide an important mechanism to assure high levels of patent quality. About 12 percent of patents are ruled invalid, while 58 percent are narrowed, and 30 percent upheld, according to USPTO...
[June 14, 2004, 8:55]
Artificial Intelligence: Working backwards from HAL
Talkback Although only a cursory outline of applications is possible at this juncture, a more detailed treatment is posted at: www.ethicalvalues.com A direct USPTO link is also found at - http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?
[March 28, 2006, 6:26]
Microsoft warns governments of Linux lawsuit threat
Talkback Ballmer; what are the USPTO numbers of these 228 patents ? Ballmer is not lying, I think he actually believes what he says but as we have found with our own UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and his "45 minute launch of WMD" claims on Iraq, no matter...
[November 18, 2004, 16:22]
Possible prior art for Microsoft XML patent found
Talkback One way or another Microsoft wants strings attached and the USPTO is more then willing to play along. The two then leave it up to the rest of the world to try to undo (by their rules yet at your own risk, mind you) the mess they created.
[June 2, 2005, 20:45]
Microsoft was denied PAYG computing patent
Blog Comment It seems Microsoft tried to combine them, and the USPTO said it was well within anyone's capacity to do so, without actually coming up with a patentable new idea. It was two patents they were referring to, as yet uncombined.
[January 4, 2009, 18:39]
Inconsistency in the air over UK software patent examinations
Blog Comment Anyway, software “on its own” is /never/ granted a patent by the EPO but that doesn't stop it granting software patents very nearly as liberally as the USPTO. plh.just to quote you for a second: In the above statement you seem to be saying that it...
[October 30, 2008, 18:48]
Amazon patents gender stereotyping
News Amazon.com has been granted a US patent on "Methods and systems of assisting users in purchasing items", including the use of gift-buying habits to determine the age, gender and birth-date of gift recipients, according to a US Patent and Trademark...
[March 9, 2005, 14:40]
