[Gllug] Microsoft announces deals with Lynux !

[Aaron Trevena]

On 04/11/06, salsaman <salsaman at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >Yes well this is the point.  You CANNOT patent a library or an XML
> >schema, not even in the wacky and wonderful world of US law, and
> >categorically not in the EU.
> >
> That's the theory, at least.
>
>http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20030028685'.PGNR.&OS=DN/20030028685&RS=DN/20030028685

Yes - in actual fact you can patent ANY idea in the United States and
Japan, without exception, in fact it doesn't even have to be novel or
unique - the USPTO pretty much rubber stamp anything (I think it's
less than 5 hours to assess a patent).

A,

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