Probably, but you would have to challenge it in court to make it stick. Mike
> -----Original Message----- > From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 7:05 PM > To: discuss@openoffice.org > Subject: Re: [discuss] Another MS XML patent > > > Now having re-read the proper patent. I still don't see how they could > be awarded a patent on what appears to be nothing more that converting a > data structure defined in one file to a serial stream in another file. > Sounds like storing a record in a database to me. :-\ I think Borland > was doing this back in the early 90s in BP7, storing object instances on > a data stream. I'll have to check on that. But it seems so overly > simple. Like someone getting a patent on how you dump cerial into a > bowl in the morning changing its format and then back into the box when > you change your mind. You've done it thousands of times and now someone > comes along and gets a patent on it. Wouldn't this procedure be > considered in the public domain? > > Alex Janssen > > > Sander Vesik wrote: > > >>>So please englighten us, what about the patent is all that old? > >>> > >>> > >you seemto be seeing just soe fragments and not teh whole - > recognising well-known > >tree species but not that you have wondered up to a forest you > havne't seen before > >;-) > > > >Its not that teh patent is something incredibly novel or > innovative or that parts of > >it (or possibly all) probably won't be upheld in court or that > there definitely > >won't be prior art - its just that it is not (as far as software > patents go in this > >regard) somehow entirely bogus or preposterous or would cover > all (or even a > >fraction of) computer-computer communication as people have been > claiming. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
