> How can a company claim to have a patent on custom XML. > I, Gilbert Mitchell Hale, citizens of the United States Of America, hereby proclaim to own all rights to my own custom CSV file format, because I am using semi-colon characters as field separators instead of comma characters, and left/right square brackets instead of double-quote characters to nest non-numeric field values. Patent Pending. Use my custom CSV format at your own risk, and know I do not plan to enforce this patent (yet).
Pay here... > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:profoxtech- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul McNett > Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] M$ banned from selling Word inthe USA? > > Stephen Russell wrote: > > <http://mashable.com/2009/08/12/word-patent/> > > > > The injunction reads: > > > > Microsoft Corporation is hereby permanently enjoined from > > performing the following actions with Microsoft Word 2003, Microsoft > > Word 2007, and Microsoft Word products not more than colorably > > different from Microsoft Word 2003 or Microsoft Word 2007 > > (collectively Infringing and Future Word Products) during the term > > of U.S. Patent No. 5,787,449: > > > > holy shit batman! > > How can a company claim to have a patent on custom XML. > > Paul > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
