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Re: Is there a patent on XML itself?

From: Peter Flynn <peter.nosp@-.--------.-->
To: NULL
Date: 4/1/2007 1:44:00 AM


Grant Robertson wrote:
> If the W3C created the XML standard, did they apply for a patent on it? 
> The only thing I can find on the W3C site is their policy about freely 
> licensing any patented technology related to a standard. 
> 
> I know all about Microsoft trying to patent every possible thing you 
> could do with an XML file. I don't really want to go off on that tangent. 
> Right now, I am just trying to figure out if there is a patent on the XML 
> standard itself and, if so, who owns it.

XML (the concept, ie the standard) is neither software nor hardware, and 
as far as I know it is therefore not patentable. I know that won't stop 
the USPO allowing someone to patent it, but we'll cross that bridge when 
we come to it.

///Peter
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