{"id":2745,"date":"2009-12-23T15:31:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T20:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2009-12-23T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T20:33:27","slug":"court-ordered-patch-removes-custom-xml-tools-from-office-2007-components","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/12\/23\/court-ordered-patch-removes-custom-xml-tools-from-office-2007-components\/","title":{"rendered":"Court-ordered Patch Removes Custom XML Tools From Office 2007 Components"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Story about Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/windows\/microsoft_news\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222100033&amp;subSection=News\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the story at the <em>Information Week<\/em> website.<\/p>\n<p>Is it just a coincidence that Microsoft is being slapped silly by the courts now that George Bush and his regime are out of office?<\/p>\n<p>At first, I could not imagine a patent that could be granted in this area because patents must be non-obvious to practitioners in the domain.\u00a0 I figured that if you wanted to process an XML document, the methodology would be pretty obvious.\u00a0 The obvious method is described in the patent as prior art.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a title=\"Document processing patent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freepatentsonline.com\/5787449.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to read patent No. 5,787,449. When someone tries to claim that the patent is obvious, I always ask the question, &#8220;So why wasn&#8217;t it invented before?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a software engineer, but no expert in the technology of document processing, this invention seems to me that it may be a significant break with all previous word processing methods. I say &#8220;seems to me&#8221; because I know that I am not aware of all previous word processing methods.\u00a0 Apparently Microsoft was not successful in attacking the validity of the patent.\u00a0 I have no idea of the details of Microsoft&#8217;s defense of the lawsuit. Perhaps they were trying to defend themselves on some other grounds than the validity of the patent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the story at the Information Week website. Is it just a coincidence that Microsoft is being slapped silly by the courts now that George Bush and his regime are out of office? At first, I could not imagine a patent that could be granted in this area because patents must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2747,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions\/2747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}