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Re: Is there a patent on XML itself?

From: Grant Robertson <bogus@-----.------->
To: NULL
Date: 4/1/2007 4:17:00 PM

In article <579umcF2c4idnU1@m...>, peter.nosp@m... 
says...
> I meant XML is not patentable as a piece of 
> software. You can indeed patent anything you like in the USA, regardless 
> of whether it makes sense to or not. Patents can also be used 
> defensively, to prevent others less scrupulous from patenting ideas not 
> theirs.

That is the very reason I am asking. I am inventing an XML standard and 
am trying to decide if I should go to the trouble and expense of 
patenting it. My main reason for doing so would be to prevent the likes 
of Microsoft from "embracing and extending" my standard in order to kill 
it or steal it.

> I've never heard of one, but in the current circumstances I don't think 
> anyone is in a position to certify that it does or does not have a patent.

Thanks for the info. Something tells me that there wouldn't be such a 
brouhaha over who owns patents to XML if W3C had crafted a well designed 
patent when they first invented XML years ago.


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