Discussion Details
| Title: | Microsoft Patent Application |
| Submitter: | Michael Covington |
| Description: | 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. |
| Date Posted: | 18-Sep-2006 |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Applied Linguistics
Computational Linguistics Morphology Translation Lexicography |
| LL Issue: | 17.2656 |
| Posted: | 18-Sep-2006 |
