Hmmm - I pasted in the link from my browser. oh well, seach google for:microsoft xml serialization patent and follow link to United States Patent Application: 0040261020 Robert Ramey Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
Robert Ramey wrote:
I just came upon an incredible thing.
It seems that microsoft has filed a U.S. Patent Application for XML serialization. I'm sort of dumbfounded at this. Truth be told I've seen a lot of even more ridiculous patents but somehow this strikes closer to home. I'm really at a loss to appreciate the ramifcations of this - if any.
Robert Ramey
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=
1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20040261020.PGNR.
That links points to a search page.
Jonathan
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