Microsoft Patent - Object Bench stolen from Blue J HELP!!!! http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-3689/microsoft-patent-object-bench-stolen-from-blue-j-help Posts in the discussion thread "Microsoft Patent - Object Bench stolen from Blue J HELP!!!!" - Microsoft is attempting to patent the Object Bench functionality of the Blue J (www.bluej.org) teaching tool Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:38:27 +0000 http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-3689#post-32580 Re: Microsoft Patent - Object Bench stolen from Blue J HELP! http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-3689/microsoft-patent-object-bench-stolen-from-blue-j-help#post-32580 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:14:57 +0000 smiths 25543 Great news. I personally think that software patents are ridiculous, and too much of this nonsense has been going around. the software patents should be trashed. nscrouplous companies have been getting away with thier lies.
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]]> http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-3689#post-8370 Re: Microsoft Patent - Object Bench stolen from Blue J HELP! http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-3689/microsoft-patent-object-bench-stolen-from-blue-j-help#post-8370 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:14:59 +0000 Anonymous see also http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2007/01/28/update-response-to-bluej-patent-issues.aspx
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]]> http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-3689#post-8369 Re: Microsoft Patent - Object Bench stolen from Blue J HELP! http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-3689/microsoft-patent-object-bench-stolen-from-blue-j-help#post-8369 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:13:46 +0000 Anonymous According to the German news-site Heise, the patent application will be withdrawn and MS apologizes:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/84439 (German)

]]> http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-3689#post-8193 Re: Microsoft Patent - Object Bench stolen from Blue J HELP! http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-3689/microsoft-patent-object-bench-stolen-from-blue-j-help#post-8193 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:24:17 +0000 Anonymous The digg link was broken. Here is a working link.
http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=21

I don't know bluej and the stuff MS wants to patent. I only can give the pretty lame advice to
a) collect any prior art you can lay hands on and see if you can find any non-digtal evidence (paper articels…)
b) let the patent examiners know about the prior art

]]> http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-3689#post-8145 Re: Microsoft Patent - Object Bench stolen from Blue J HELP! http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-3689/microsoft-patent-object-bench-stolen-from-blue-j-help#post-8145 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:53:03 +0000 Anonymous Patent Request link:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Se ct2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.htm l&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=200 60101406.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060101406&RS=DN/20060101406

Digg:
http://digg.com/software/Microsoft_copies_features_attempts_ to_patent

]]> http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-3689#post-8144 Microsoft Patent - Object Bench stolen from Blue J HELP!!!! http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-3689/microsoft-patent-object-bench-stolen-from-blue-j-help#post-8144 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:51:49 +0000 Anonymous Microsoft is attempting to patent the Object Bench functionality of the Blue J (www.bluej.org) program…… is there any way we can stop this?

This affects also the E-BOB (Eclipse IDE plugin) and the free software world, we cannot let microsoft patent things like this, it could destroy bluej and bluej is amazing software.

Ed

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