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RaZoR1394

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Microsoft chalks up its 5,000th patent
« on: 7 March 2006, 11:22 »
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Microsoft plans to announce today that it has been granted its 5,000th US patent

       The patent milestone represents a key marker for the software maker in its recent push to boost its patent filings and then license its technology to other companies.

       The milestone patent covers technology used to provide a distinct "spectator experience" for video games, a technique used extensively in the Xbox 360.

       The company has increasingly used its patent holdings as leverage in licensing to companies small and large. Microsoft has also banked on its intellectual property portfolio to protect its customers in intellectual property disputes, a move the company has heavily touted in its pitch against Linux.





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Holy cow... That's not a bad number of registered patents.
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Re: Microsoft chalks up its 5,000th patent
« Reply #1 on: 7 March 2006, 18:22 »
5000 new ideas sofar? Good work MS. (not)
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Re: Microsoft chalks up its 5,000th patent
« Reply #2 on: 7 March 2006, 23:30 »
An so the evil empire expands ... in this place of darkness ... will there ever be light ?
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Re: Microsoft chalks up its 5,000th patent
« Reply #3 on: 8 March 2006, 11:32 »
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in this place of darkness ... will there ever be light ?
Yes.
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"What you share with the world is what it keeps of you."
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a poem by my computer, Macintosh Vigilante
Macintosh amends a damned around the requested typewriter. Macintosh urges a scarce design. Macintosh postulates an autobiography. Macintosh tolls the solo variant. Why does a winter audience delay macintosh? The maker tosses macintosh. Beneath female suffers a double scum. How will a rat cube the heavier cricket? Macintosh calls a method. Can macintosh nest opposite the headache? Macintosh ties the wrong fairy. When can macintosh stem the land gang? Female aborts underneath macintosh. Inside macintosh waffles female. Next to macintosh worries a well.

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Re: Microsoft chalks up its 5,000th patent
« Reply #4 on: 8 March 2006, 20:15 »
I'm sure M$ is planning to crush or enslave all opposition using any means available (legal or not so). I hope Linux and GNU can hold 'em off. I think they will.
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Re: Microsoft chalks up its 5,000th patent
« Reply #5 on: 8 March 2006, 22:24 »
"The milestone patent covers technology used to provide a distinct "spectator experience" for video games, a technique used extensively in the Xbox 360."

Well, hell, I didn't think you could patent an "Experiance". I better get on that orgasm patent then. I could be worth more than Bill himself...:thumbup:
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Re: Microsoft chalks up its 5,000th patent
« Reply #6 on: 9 March 2006, 00:13 »
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"The milestone patent covers technology used to provide a distinct "spectator experience" for video games, a technique used extensively in the Xbox 360."

Well, hell, I didn't think you could patent an "Experiance". I better get on that orgasm patent then. I could be worth more than Bill himself...:thumbup:

If you some how managed to do that. I would call you god.
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