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"U.S. Grants Patent For Broad Range Of Internet Rich Applications The patent--issued on Valentine's Day--covers all rich-media technology implementations, including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax, and XAML, when the rich-media application is accessed on any device over the Internet, according to the patent holders. "

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2/23/2006 1:21:43 AM

-sigh-

2/23/2006 1:24:57 AM

Patents have to be the driest reading material of all time.

2/23/2006 1:25:48 AM

i probably read close to 100 yesterday and wanted to beat myself

2/23/2006 1:34:11 AM

I'm sorry.

2/23/2006 1:50:19 AM

yea, I considered working at the USPTO, but really, who wants to read shit ALL day long???
and yes, very dry material at that

2/23/2006 10:33:07 AM

At least they caught on to the warp drive patent attempt.

http://patentlaw.typepad.com/patent/2006/02/pto_requests_mo.html

2/23/2006 10:41:09 AM

amusing

2/23/2006 11:12:35 AM

Seems overly broad. I could see him patenting his implementation of rich media technology, but he can't patent the idea of rich media technology.

2/23/2006 12:18:43 PM

From that Digg site:

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"I'm sure there is prior art."

2/23/2006 1:31:12 PM

this guy worked for macromedia or founded it or something right?

so wasn't the whole purpose of them creating these things so that people could use them? i mean wtf. without being able to use the technologies free of charge, people most likeley not be using the macromedia authoring products...

[Edited on February 23, 2006 at 5:21 PM. Reason : x]

2/23/2006 5:20:47 PM