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Stuart · 23-07-2005, 21:10

I may be wrong, but seeing as smilies have been around since (at least) the early seventies, and you could even argue that websites have been using custom smilies for at least ten years (after all, at some point someone has designed the picture used), surely any attempt to patent that would fail?

23-07-2005, 21:10	#3
Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: Microsoft tries to patent smilies I may be wrong, but seeing as smilies have been around since (at least) the early seventies, and you could even argue that websites have been using custom smilies for at least ten years (after all, at some point someone has designed the picture used), surely any attempt to patent that would fail?