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jimking
08-13-2009, 02:17 PM
Can it be true? :D
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8197990.stm
CkretAjint
08-13-2009, 02:20 PM
I just read this article this morning. LOL!
I am sure they will just "reinvent" the way that Word pulls and reads the XML information.
PrintDriver
08-13-2009, 02:48 PM
I4i filed a patent in 1998 that outlined a means for "manipulating the architecture and the content of a document separately from each other" invoking XML as a means allowing users to format text documents.
They filed an "outline" that was "invoking" XML as the means.
If Microsoft actually made it work...
Can you patent an idea?
<Goes to put anti-gravity invisible graphic wall fastener outline in to Patent Office>
hewligan
08-14-2009, 12:19 AM
They filed an "outline" that was "invoking" XML as the means.
If Microsoft actually made it work...
Can you patent an idea?
<Goes to put anti-gravity invisible graphic wall fastener outline in to Patent Office>
The US Patent office will, it seems, let you have a patent on just about anything.
urstwile
08-15-2009, 09:55 PM
I'm confused though, don't a lot of programs use XML? Doesn't InDesign import and export XML?
garricks
08-16-2009, 12:52 AM
I'm guessing the difference is that Indy doesn't save to XML as its main file format? Or maybe that MS created their own "flavor" of XML that doesn't match the standard, and therefore didn't license the standard?
^^ Pure guesses.
urstwile
08-16-2009, 07:17 PM
Oh, maybe the latter, garricks.
BeautyNut
08-16-2009, 07:27 PM
What exactly does all this mean? :o:confused:
urstwile
08-16-2009, 07:29 PM
If you move to Texas make sure you have a copy of Microsoft Word before you move? :D
garricks
08-16-2009, 08:37 PM
And a whole buncha lawyers are gonna make a whole buncha money in the appeals courts.
hewligan
08-16-2009, 10:37 PM
There's no license required to use XML. The patent MS is infringing is about doing particular things with XML.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136539/Injunction_on_Microsoft_Word_unlikely_to_halt_sale s
Custom XML allows people to create forms or templates such that words in certain fields are tagged and then can be managed in a database, said Loudon Owen, a spokesman for i4i. Large companies and government agencies, for example, might create such templates.
I4i's patent covers technology that lets end users manipulate document architecture and content.
And, if the injunction goes ahead, it's not a matter of making sure you have a copy of Word before you go to Texas, it's more like making sure you have a copy of WOrd before you go to the US.
But it sounds like they can get around it: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136660/_Easy_work_around_could_solve_Microsoft_Word_s_leg al_woes_says_expert