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1st September 2006, 11:16 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Microsoft patents verb conjugation
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...DN/20060195313
http://techdirt.com/articles/20060831/144251.shtml If I'm reading this patent application correctly, Microsoft is tryign to patent a program which woudl let you enter one form of a verb and get all the forms. THsi would of course be a necessary component in many applications. I'm pretty sure this isn't the sort of thing which is patentable and even if it were, it's already been done by many others. I'm not sure why anyone would bother applying for such a thing, unless they're just trying to test the patent system. |
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2nd September 2006, 03:48 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: The other other place
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The way I read it, they acknowledge that verb conjugators do currently exist, but they would like to patent the idea of conjugating in context and in unison with spell checking.
So business as usual for Redmond R&D.  .
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