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Re: Another Microsoft XML patent

• To: "Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Subject: Re: Another Microsoft XML patent
• From: Alan Gutierrez <alan-xml-dev@e...>
• Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:46:36 -0400
• Cc: "'M. David Peterson'" <m.david.x2x2x@g...>, Michael Kay <mike@s...>, Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>, xml-dev@l...
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* Bullard, Claude L (Len) <len.bullard@i...> [2005-06-06 14:23]:
> By hooking the means to the end.  Use the web to 
> document and present innovation meriting patents. 
> Change the legal system and the patenting process 
> to admit this evidence.  Enable an examiner to 
> open a patent to commentary/inspection by the 
> community affected by it.

> The serious problem of the patent process is 
> opaqueness of the examination subprocess.

    It seems a pity that third parties cannot be consulted, when you
    imagine that you are the third party they would consult.
   
    To make research available to the USPTO as a passive resource
    might be something that is acceptable legally, but then wouldn't
    we be setting up a battle between PR departments, politicizing
    the patent approval process?

    Wouldn't a software monlith aruge effectively along the lines
    of:

    We spend x billion a year on research and development. How can
    you tell us that our application approval pivots on the consesus
    of a newsgroup.

--
Alan Gutierrez - alan@e...
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