On 08/12/2009 02:53 AM, Alex Fisher wrote: >> Cor Nouws wrote: >> > Hi Jürgen, >> > >> > Juergen Schmidt wrote (12-8-2009 7:25) >> > >> >> The FLatXML filter is as example part of the SDK since years. I don't >> >> know exactly and have to check it but i assume it is part since the >> >> beginning of the SDK. >> >> [...] >> > >> > And that was when? >> >> May 2003 (see the old cvs repo) when i have checked in the filter in the >> SDK. > > OK, if my memory serves me right, that was about 2 years before MS applied > for > their patent (there needs to be a proper check, but IIRC they applied in 2005 > or thereabouts). I'll see if I still have the PDF of the application > somewhere. > > I believe the US Patent office has a bad habit of not checking for, or > ignoring notifications of, prior art. From the reading I've done, the "SOP" > is > to grant the patent and *then* fight about prior art. ...
The article from the OP contains a link to the MS patent: <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,571,169.PN.&OS=PN/7,571,169&RS=PN/7,571,169> Note the many Sun StarOffice XML references. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
