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Subject: RE: [emergency-comment] Microsoft gets XML patent


Billy,

Boring.   Filed in 2004.  All this is a manifestation of the new craze in patents.  Notice my XML patent now has 26 other patents citing it from Dell, Oracle, IBM, et al.

So what do we find in Microsofts patent?  A massive list of cited patents.  So in the patent world if someone has a patent for a door handle - then you invent a new left handed door handle, cite their patent - and presto - you can sell left handed door handles without paying them royalties - because yours is a new invention.

So all this is is Microsoft prevent all those cited patents from impacting their ability to sell Microsoft Word.

Snore, boring - this is make work exercise for patent attourneys and the USPTO.

Thanks, DW

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [emergency-comment] Microsoft gets XML patent
From: Billy Pitts <bpitts5@mac.com>
Date: Thu, August 06, 2009 8:51 pm
To: rexb@starbourne.com
Cc: "Gilmore, Timothy" <TIMOTHY.D.GILMORE@saic.com>,
emergency-comment@lists.oasis-open.org, "Gooch, Martena M."
<MARTENA.M.GOOCH@saic.com>

Thought everyone might be interested in this recent Slashdot posting:

On Tuesday, Microsoft was granted U.S. Patent No.7,571,169 for its
'invention' of the Word-processing document stored in a single XML
file that may be manipulated by applications that understand XML.
Presumably developers are protected by Microsoft's 'covenant not to
sue', so the biggest question raised by this patent is: How in the
world was it granted in light of the 40-year history of document
markup languages? Next thing you know, the USPTO will give Microsoft
a patent for Providing Emergency Data in XML format. Oops, too late.

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