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List:       openoffice-discuss
Subject:    Re: [discuss] XML/Word-processing Patent in NZ
From:       Lars_D._Noodén <lars () umich ! edu>
Date:       2005-03-15 10:46:28
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0503150539580.16185 () gravitar ! gpcc ! itd ! umich ! edu
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Along the theme of power grabs, the same company has begun appointing what 
seem to be consuls / ambassadors under the name National Technology 
Officer (NTO).
 	http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/21/ms_nto/

-Lars
Lars Nooden (lars@umich.edu)
 	Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business.
 	Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Marco Fioretti wrote:

> "In the New Zealand Herald, Adam Gifford has written an article blasting 
> Microsoft for burying the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office in 
> paperwork. One example is Patent 525484, accepted by the office and now 
> open for objections until the end of May, which says Microsoft invented 
> and owns the process whereby a word-processing document stored in a 
> single XML file may be manipulated by applications that understand XML."
>
> Slashdot page:
> http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/03/15/0118201.shtml?tid=155&tid=109
> Original article:
> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10115247
>
> Ciao,
> Marco
>
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