by Michael S. Kaplan, published on 2013/09/04 07:01 -04:00, original URI: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2013/09/04/10443741.aspx
I got an email from the Patent group at Microsoft the other day. And for one of those great ideas never fully realized, like last time when I wrote Software patents suck
This was for another patent, one we probably never should have been getting, titled 'Multiple Input Language Selection'. I only got $500 for this patent, because despite the fact that it was buried in prior art, I didn't have the heart to completely torpedo it, although I dragged my heels in a little bit...
So I will get the patent that should probably never have been granted.
And it will sit on the shelf next to the patent that represents a perfect example reduced to practice though never implemented (and it probably never will be).
I feel cheated somehow.
Perhaps I should have worked a little harder on it when I was developing it? When I was a developer, I mean.
Though being a developer is like being a marine. There are no ex-developer, or ex-marines.
Ironically enough, Google fought that one a little, but I'm sure we'd let them use this one if they wanted to, No hard feelings, after all..
Maybe I should send Mark Davis an email about this after I post this blog just to make sure someone gets something useful out of it! 😏;-)
mgetz on 17 Sep 2013 12:16 PM:
post it to patents.stackexchange.com they will most likely tear it apart prior to issuance
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