Text only | Text with Images

Principia Discordia

Principia Discordia => Techmology and Scientism => Topic started by: Kai on August 13, 2009, 06:33:58 PM

Title: Microsoft to patent phylogenetics.
Post by: Kai on August 13, 2009, 06:33:58 PM
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.
Title: Re: Microsoft to patent phylogenetics.
Post by: Soylent Green on August 13, 2009, 11:28:56 PM
Quote from: Kai on August 13, 2009, 06:33:58 PM

.....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!
Title: Re: Microsoft to patent phylogenetics.
Post by: Requia ☣ on August 14, 2009, 04:29:56 AM
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).
Title: Re: Microsoft to patent phylogenetics.
Post by: Remington on August 14, 2009, 08:08:38 AM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on August 14, 2009, 04:29:56 AM
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!
Title: Re: Microsoft to patent phylogenetics.
Post by: Triple Zero on August 14, 2009, 08:48:23 AM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on August 14, 2009, 04:29:56 AM
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.
Title: Re: Microsoft to patent phylogenetics.
Post by: Requia ☣ on August 14, 2009, 09:59:17 AM
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.
Title: Re: Microsoft to patent phylogenetics.
Post by: Triple Zero on August 14, 2009, 09:53:36 PM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on August 14, 2009, 09:59:17 AM
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
Title: Re: Microsoft to patent phylogenetics.
Post by: Requia ☣ on August 14, 2009, 10:09:55 PM
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).
Text only | Text with Images