I'm not a lawyer but I would imagine that ODF predates Microsofts attempts at XML-ifying Office and would therefore be considered prior art. The only way the patent would stand up in court would be if the scope only covered Microsoft Office (as opposed to anything Office-like) or if the judge was technologically clueless.
Mark On Friday, August 7, 2009, Michael Neale <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would eat my fist if it effects it at all. > > On Aug 7, 7:56 pm, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote: >> Does somebody in here knows whether the patent of Microsoft about word >> processing >> (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/06/2322209/Microsoft-Patents-XML-...) >> constitutes a danger for OO's ODF format ? > > > -- Mark Fortner blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jroller/ideafactory --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
