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RE: Another Microsoft XML patent

• To: "'Alan Gutierrez'" <alan-xml-dev@e...>,"'Michael Champion'" <michaelc.champion@g...>
• Subject: RE: Another Microsoft XML patent
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 00:40:20 +0100
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <20050607212646.GQ2865@m...>
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> > I've heard all this rhetoric about Big Evil Co shutting down lone
> > practicioners with their bogus patents, but nobody has cited a
> > single real case.

I know of a real case, and it's very much in the XML field, where the guy
who actually invented an idea (a sole practitioner) was prevented from
exploiting it by a big company that copied the idea and patented it. I was
told the story in confidence and I assume the details have not come into the
open because of an out-of-court settlement.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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