Microsoft to patent phylogenetics.

[Kai]

http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090030925 wut

O.o

Kai,

Thinks MS is getting way too big for its own britches.

also,

.....yeah, patenting a whole biological method. Riiiiiiiight.

[Soylent Green]

.....yeah, patenting a whole biological method. Riiiiiiiight.

So now I think I'll go and patent blowing water out of blowholes.

Then I shall amass millions of whale bucks and become king of the sea mammals.

WAHAHA!

[Requia ☣]

Microsoft will get its own.  They just got told by a judge they can't keep selling office because it violates another companies patents to use a software method that is at least 25 years old, yay east Texas).

[Remington]

Microsoft will get its own.  They just got told by a judge they can't keep selling office because it violates another companies patents to use a software method that is at least 25 years old, yay east Texas).

Hooray for instant karma!

[Triple Zero]

Microsoft will get its own.  They just got told by a judge they can't keep selling office because it violates another companies patents to use a software method that is at least 25 years old, yay east Texas).

microsoft or not, that lawsuit was absolutely retarded.

this canadian company patented the usage of XML with Word (!!?) and so they went all the way to texas cause judges there are apparently good at allowing retarded patent cases.

microsoft will get its own, however, because Google will crush them.

[Requia ☣]

The patent is for a plaintext document and a second markup document that modifies the plaintext, nothing to do with XML per se.

And yes, east Texas judges are incredibly good at allowing retarded patent cases.  its actually remarkable MS didn't settle to avoid this, the outcome was pretty inevitable.  Its going to cost them a ton to pay the company off now.

[Triple Zero]

The patent is for a plaintext document and a second markup document that modifies the plaintext, nothing to do with XML per se.

that sounds like either HTML/CSS or XML/XSLT, both of which are non patented standards

[Requia ☣]

Like I said, there's 25 year old prior art, at least.  Never mind the applicability of the patent in the first place.  MS is a first class abuser of the system though (see them suing tom-tom for a patent on having long filenames in a file system).