MobileRead Forums - View Single Post

Chaos · 01-14-2005, 04:53 PM

If I remember correctly, patents can be filed as long as no one objects... Look at Microsoft's patent profile... CLEAR prior art on many of them.

And (semi-offtopic) software patents are evil.

01-14-2005, 04:53 PM	#4
Chaos Evangelist Posts: 418 Karma: 281 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Device: Assorted older devices	If I remember correctly, patents can be filed as long as no one objects... Look at Microsoft's patent profile... CLEAR prior art on many of them. And (semi-offtopic) software patents are evil. Last edited by Chaos; 01-14-2005 at 08:56 PM.