[plug] NEW M$ Patent?

[Ben Jensz]

There is plenty of evidence of prior art, so how do they think they're 
going to enforce a patent based on that?

The US patent and copyright office seriously needs a major overhaul.  
Another example of their stupidity is how the copyright office granted 
both Novell and SCO registered copyright when they both applied recently 
for the Unix copyrights.  Without even going into the whole argument of 
who really owns them, how can they grant a registered copyright to two 
different companies for exactly the same thing?  How stupid is that.


/ Ben


Bennett, Phillip wrote:

> Has anyone seen this today?
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14372
>
> http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20030189597'.PGNR.&OS=DN/20030189597&RS=DN/20030189597 
> <http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2720030189597%27.PGNR.&OS=DN/20030189597&RS=DN/20030189597>  
> (Linked in above article)
>
> Looks like they're doing what Gnome and KDE have been doing for AGES!  
> As illustrated, there is even the Gnome logo on one of the drawings.
>
> Does anyone have any more info / thoughts?
>
> Phil.
>
>
> PS: Can't find the link now, but I have a copy of the PDF if anyone 
> wants it.
>