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Patent: Application-Specific Windows Colourisation
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| The US patent might be a bit daft, especially when it comes to software, but
| it does offer some interesting insights into what crazy things the big
| companies might be working on for future products. One such patent emerged
| today: Microsoft applied in 2005 (and was granted in 2008) a patent which
| describes how different windows may be coloured differently, or that they may
| have different transparency settings.
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http://www.osnews.com/story/20266/Patent_Application-Specific_Windows_Colourisation
"I’d be glad to help tilt lotus into into the death spiral. I could do it
Friday afternoon but not Saturday. I could do it pretty much any time the
following week."
--Brad Silverberg, Microsoft
Related:
Microsoft Deems Emotiflags Patent-Worthy
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| 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!"
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/16/038207&from=rss
Microsoft patent hints at pay-as-you-go OS
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| A Microsoft patent application from June 2005, published only today,
| titled "System and method for delivery of a modular operating system"
| may signal a fundamental change for what an operating systems stands
| for and how it is sold.
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http://www.istartedsomething.com.nyud.net:8080/20061215/pay-as-you-go-os-patent/
Fun with Google Patent Search: Why does the maker of Windows hold a patent on
a door hinge?
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| The patent was granted in 1998 and received a dribble of publicity
| in 1999, but I'm hard pressed to find any meaningful explanation for
| a door hinge being in the control of the company that made Windows famous.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9721
Big businesses boast of patent benefits, for small businesses
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| A report published by an EU task force on intellectual property claims
| that small businesses benefit from a patent system, despite lacking
| almost any participation by the small business community.
|
| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
| large corporations and the patent industry.
|
| [...]
|
| The report does note objections from the likes of patentfrei.de and
| Sun Microsystems, which were recorded at some length in the report.
| But this does not appear to have impacted the conclusion of the
| report in any way
|
| [...]
|
| Jean-Pierre Laisne, of ObjectWeb, an open source software community,
| said that he found the report useless: participants were told that
| all their contributions would be recorded but at the end only
| those of Business Software Alliance and Microsoft were used.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/99155/big-businesses-boast-of-patent-benefits-for-small-businesses.html
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