17.2656, Disc: Re: 17.2621 Microsoft Patent Application

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LINGUIST List: Vol-17-2656. Mon Sep 18 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.2656, Disc: Re: 17.2621 Microsoft Patent Application

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Date: 18-Sep-2006
From: Michael Covington < mc at uga.edu >
Subject: Microsoft Patent Application 

	
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:22:54
From: Michael Covington < mc at uga.edu >
Subject: Microsoft Patent Application 
 

We have the right to submit information to the Patent Office showing that an
invention is not original.  This is called "protesting a patent application" and
the procedure (which I have not read through) is found at:

www.uspto.gov

I suggest that linguists who are specifically aware of prior art (i.e., prior
use of the techniques for which Microsoft is claiming originality) should get
together and compile a report, then submit it to the Patent Office and publish it. 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Morphology
                     Translation





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