Microsoft tries to patent smilies
23-07-2005, 20:43
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Microsoft tries to patent smilies
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23-07-2005, 20:56
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Re: Microsoft tries to patent smilies
How stupid, M$ have gone too far now 
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23-07-2005, 21:10
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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?
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24-07-2005, 00:40
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Re: Microsoft tries to patent smilies
How can they patent someones art? Surely that would fall under copyright rather than patent anyway?
Is there a head doctor out there who can check the MS lawyers for madness?
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24-07-2005, 00:52
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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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24-07-2005, 19:01
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Re: Microsoft tries to patent smilies
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Originally Posted by ian@huth
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I read this interesting statement on the patent
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This is NOT patenting custom emoticons, as the title of the news says.
What IS being patented is the exact way MSN Messenger handles its custom emoticons feature, right down to the sizing, caching, and behavior when the text is typed.
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