| Microsoft wants to patent smilies! WTF?! [message #164083] |
Sat, 23 July 2005 23:39  |
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csskiller
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39210396,00.htm
How low has Microsoft gone this time? 
Oh and for those who sorta want to try to stop it here is a petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/f5923j49/
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| Re: Microsoft wants to patent smilies! WTF?! [message #164338 is a reply to message #164083] |
Tue, 26 July 2005 18:13  |
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warranto
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Heh, considering how detailed you have to be in a patent, I wonder how the smiley/the way it's sent would be described.
Oh, and mrpirate, it has nothing to do with how they are sent, what they are trying for is this:
example: patent includes that the ";" character and the ")" character will combine in that order to create the  image when compiled after transmission.
example: patent includes that the ":" character and the "D" character will combine in that order to create the  image when compiled after transmission.
in the above examples the ";", ")", and ":", "D" characters will be patented in the order needed to create the";.)" and ":.D" sequence (this will also be patented) to create the final and after transmission (which will be patented as well)
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| Re: Microsoft wants to patent smilies! WTF?! [message #165002 is a reply to message #164356] |
Mon, 01 August 2005 13:40 |
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Scythar
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It doesn't really affect the normal chatters on the Net anyway. It's the other companies who are going be owned because they can't use samekind of smilie system (AOL instant messenger etc etc).
There's a hole in the sky through which things can fly.
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| Re: Microsoft wants to patent smilies! WTF?! [message #166177 is a reply to message #164083] |
Fri, 12 August 2005 15:06 |
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TEKNIK
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Wow, now that would reall suck for all those other companies. Maybe this petition is a good idea. I wish for AOL to stay up for a little longer before i leave them. They are going to start to charge for help calls.
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| Re: Microsoft wants to patent smilies! WTF?! [message #166996 is a reply to message #166924] |
Sat, 20 August 2005 17:47 |
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| Chronojam wrote on Fri, 19 August 2005 20:40 |
So all these other companies are jealous they didn't patent smilies first, and a bunch of asshats are screaming at Microsoft for what reason exactly? "NO PATENTING THINGS! IT IS SO UN-AMERICAN"
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Ever hear of prior art? If not, please look it up before you start spouting more of your ranting.
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| Re: Microsoft wants to patent smilies! WTF?! [message #167627 is a reply to message #164083] |
Thu, 25 August 2005 08:35 |
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Dave Mason
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It's called business. A business's aims are to maximise income. If you patent something you can sue your opposition not only giving you more money but a wider used product due to uniqueness.
You may not like it but it's the way it is.
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| Re: Microsoft wants to patent smilies! WTF?! [message #167911 is a reply to message #167410] |
Fri, 26 August 2005 22:10 |
Chronojam
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| Chronojam wrote on Wed, 24 August 2005 02:59 |
If I make a stylized "peace" sign the symbol for my company, and then get a copyright on it, is that so unthinkable or impossible to have happen?
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Suppose though this sign were special. I could put a little symbol down digitally, and a vastly distributed operating system would recognize it was my characters, and instead replace it with my logo for me. Let's go a step further and have it recognize my symbol as standing for both those characters, and my company.
Too far fetched?
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| Re: Microsoft wants to patent smilies! WTF?! [message #167959 is a reply to message #167911] |
Sat, 27 August 2005 07:44 |
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Though replacing characters with something else like an image is common, let's say it was your original idea. Suppose you decided not to patent your idea and it was used commonly. Now, years later, someone else has patented your idea. That is the situation here.
Microsoft is taking advantage of the EU patent system. Though software patents aren't enforcable yet, this is just one example of the lunacy that will happen if they do. Take a look at some more absurd patents in the same database: http://webshop.ffii.org/.
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