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Re: Acacia patents pre-compiling and linking ..

____/ Mark Kent on Monday 12 November 2007 17:20 : \____

> Bob Tennent <BobT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:41:53 -0800, Doug Mentohl wrote:
>> > "Acacia Research .. has acquired a patent for compiler technology"
>> >
>> > "The patented technology generally relates to software object pre-
>> > compilation and linking in software compilers"
>> >
>> > http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/812103/
>> 
>> "relates to"
>> 
>> The patent number isn't mentioned so exactly what is claimed to be novel
>> isn't clear.
> 
> This is a computing process.  It's not suitable for patenting in the
> first place.

That's right. On the other hand, there are innovative things like the smiley.

Microsoft Deems Emotiflags Patent-Worthy

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft said you could count on them to improve patent quality.
| For an example of how they're raising the bar on innovation, check
| out this just-published patent application for Emotiflags, which
| Microsoft explains solves the problem of indicating an emotion 
| associated with an email message. At the risk of infringing on the
| patent, this one Makes Me Mad!"
`----

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/16/038207&from=rss


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