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RIP Microsoft Office â October 3, 2009
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| Microsoft has been fighting free and open source software in court on a
| patent issues for quite some time. It is no secret that Microsoft had funded
| SCOâs lawsuits against many major players in the Linux market which Bill
| Gates used to slow Linuxâs growth. Now, nobody cares about SCO anymore? Why?
| SCO filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in May of 2009. Microsoft used SCO to do
| ligation five years ago but lately it is has been taking matters into its own
| hands. First they extorted Novell into âpartneringâ with them.
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http://whatwillweuse.com/2009/08/15/rip-microsoft-office-october-3-2009/
Bilski:
Microsoft Ordered to Stop Selling MS Word
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| * Bilski?: i4iâs claim 14 may well fail the Federal Circuitâs Bilski
| machine-or-transformation test. The claim reads as follows:
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| A method for producing a first map of metacodes and their addresses of
| use in association with mapped content and stored in distinct map storage
| means, the method comprising:
|
| * providing the mapped content to mapped content storage means;
| * providing a menu of metacodes;
| * compiling a map of the metacodes in the distinct storage means, by
| locating, detecting and addressing the metacodes; and
| * providing the document as the content of the document and the
| metacode map of the document.
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http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/08/i4i-ltd-v-microsoft-corp-ed-tex-2009-texas-style-the-order-from-judge-davis-gets-right-to-the-point---in-accordance.html
Recent:
Softpatent trolls OOXML and Word
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| We may add that while Microsoft always pays lip service to patent reform and
| patent quality, it effectively obstructed even moderate steps of pragmatic
| reform in the field of software patenting with massive lobbying investment
| and an ideological agenda. An ideological motivation you don't find among all
| the other players which have a real business. The massive lobbying also
| applies to colonial attitudes towards patent regimes of third nations in
| which the American company operates, or the European Union, our main area of
| operations as the FFII e.V. Ironically Microsoft itself is a favourite target
| of troll challenges and no one knows how much profits Marshall Phelps
| actually generates by selling their Microsoft FAT patents. In the spectacular
| case of TomTom we were told it was a very small amount. Some American critics
| as Brian Kahin speak of a patent bubble of low value patents but how is it
| going to burst? When you have a licensing business a good patent is one that
| hurts. Maybe the Encyclopedia Brittannica is an example, it failed
| commercially and now became an (unsuccesful) patent enforcement agency
| against actual market players.
|
| In the recent referral G03/08 about software patentability an European Patent
| Office case named T 424/03 (Microsoft) was center to the debate. Find the
| Amicus letters here. Currently you also have a pending referral on Bilski in
| the US Supreme Court which is more far reaching than software. In the US many
| examination tests were dismantled such as the machine or transformation box
| test which opened the flood gates and unbalanced the system. It was
| reintroduced under the Bilski ruling but appealed at the supreme court. The
| Bilski test does not rule out software or business method patents but
| provides means to reduce the pressure within the examination system in later
| stages.
|
| First you wreck the law, then the trolls wreck4 you.
|
| [...]
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| Right now ISO/IEC 29500 ("OOXML") is patent encumbered and cannot be called
| an "open standard" according to conventional definitions and looks unusable
| for the public sector.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-175409/softpatent-4trolls-ooxml-and-word
Last year:
Is Microsoft Now Banned from EU Contracts?
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=697&blogid=14
Euro MP thinks Microsoft should be banned from government contracts
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/10/member-eu-parliament-asks
Green MEP says Microsoft should be excluded from EU contract awarding procedure
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/106338/from/rss09
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