Patents archive

Microsoft and Apples

2004-12-28 13:53

Link: Microsoft and Apples

No. It doesn’t have anything to do with Apple Computer Inc. Microsoft holds a patent for an apple tree named “Burchinal Red Delicious.” I always knew Billy-Boy wanted to be a farmer :-)

Web address converter for dynamic web pages

2004-12-23 19:49

I have just read United States Patent Application 20040260722 filed by Microsoft on 2004-07-16. The patent application is titled Web address converter for dynamic web pages, which immediatly got me interested.

Note that I am not a patent lawyer, I will never be one, but this patent seems to be fairly broad, and covers in great detail how to create search-engine-friendly URLs from database queries. Read on

Microsoft ordered to pay $520m

2003-08-12 20:51

Link: Microsoft ordered to pay $520m

Software giant Microsoft has been ordered by a US court to pay out more than half a billion dollars for breaching a patent with its Internet Explorer web browser.