[Corpora-List] Microsoft patents verb conjugations

[Alexander Paile]

As far as I know Microsoft already has a patent on double-clicking with 
the mouse. That's a pretty good one too.

Alexander


Susana Sotillo wrote:
> I believe Mark Davis has already done this.  If anyone is infringing on 
> "intellectual property" (a ridiculous term), then it's Microsoft.
> 
> Susana Sotillo
> 
> Oliver Mason wrote:
>> This is ridiculous.  I implemented something like that about ten years
>> ago for the Cobuild corpus access system, and of course I didn't
>> invent it myself.
>>
>> Surely it must cost money to apply for patents, and this one should
>> never be granted, so it'd just be a waste of time and money.
>>
>> They'll probably apply for "A method of transferring information
>> between autonomous agents using modulation of local air pressure" next
>> and sue all of us for talking.
>>
>> Oliver
>>
>> On 07/09/06, John F. Sowa <sowa at bestweb.net> wrote:
>>> If anybody has been deriving the infinitive of a verb
>>> from a finite form, you may be violating a recent patent
>>> application by Microsoft.  (However, I suspect that there
>>> may be prior art that had been published earlier.)
>>>
>>> Following is the title, abstract, and URL.
>>>
>>> John Sowa
>>> _________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> Source: http://tinyurl.com/e5g7y
>>>
>>> United States Patent Application 20060195313
>>>
>>> Voetberg; Eric J.; et al.  August 31, 2006
>>>
>>> Method and system for selecting and conjugating a verb
>>
> 
> 

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