On 8/26/14, 12:37 PM, Max Klyga wrote:
Microsoft being microsoft again.http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2014/0196015.html - DECLARATION OF LIFETIME OF RESOURCE REFERENCE This contains description of scoped classes, etc. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2014/0196008.html - IMMUTABLE OBJECT TYPES I really hope patent office will reject these applications.
Now on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2eohiv/microsoft_filed_patent_applications_for_scoped
Two links of interest you may want to contribute to: https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/10128/prior-art-for-us-patent-application-20140196008-immutable-object-types https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/10122/looking-for-prior-art-for-patent-application-us20140196015-declaration-of-lifet Andrei