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Re: Microsoft tries to patent smilies
The history of smilies is talked about at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A155909 .
The Microsoft patent can be seen at http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...DN/20050156873
It isn't the art that is being patented but the method of representing art by characters for transmission.
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