[CLUE-Talk] ms patenting xml ??

[Dennis J Perkins]

I think Abiword and gnumeric also use XML as their native format.  I think 
there is plenty of prior art to overturn this.

Are they applying for this patent in the US?  I thought that I had read that 
they were trying this in a different country.

The way patents are going, we need some kind of patent court where patents can 
be denied if someone shows prior art, without the absurdity of going into 
expensive court cases.  Maybe allow a six-month or one-year period for the 
showing of prior art after a patent examiner approves it before a patent is 
granted?


> Jed S. Baer wrote:
> >  Whether, for example, OpenOffice could afford the
> > litigation, it's hard to say. One can imagine Sun stepping up to the plate
> > for them. But other projects, I dunno.
> > 
> > jed
> 
> from an open office document sent to me by my wife (her network printing 
> isn't working) thunderbird misread the content-type and downloaded it as 
> a zip file. i looked at the zip file and it's a set of 4 xml documents. 
> hopefully the patent won't go through cause that looks like prior art to 
> me.
> 
> -Evan (who is suffering from a cold at the minute and may not be making 
> complete sense)
> 
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