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.