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I find it completely bizarre that this kind of thing can get past the
"obviousness" test.
The US Patent Office is clearly not applying stringent enough criteria.
What I would like to know is, is it a conspiracy (protectionism for the
US software industry, jobs for the lawyers), or is it just incompetence?
Michael Kay
> Systems, methods and data structures for encompassing scripts
> written
> in one or more scripting languages in a single file. The
> scripts of a
> computer system are organized into a single file using Extensible
> Language Markup (XML). Each script is delimited by a file
> element and
> the script's instructions are delimited by a code element
> within each
> file element. Other information, such as a name of the script and a
> functional description of the script may also be included in
> the file
> using other XML elements to delimit that information. The
> language in
> which a particular script is written is also included within
> the XML
> format. When a particular script is executed, the file is parsed to
> create a list of the script names or of the functional
> descriptions of
> the scripts. One or more scripts are selected and the code
> for those
> scripts is extracted from the file and executed by the appropriate
> scripting process. The scripting process that executes a particular
> script is identified from the scripting extension attribute that is
> included in the XML format of the file."
>
> At very first glance, it appears to be another case of
> "wrapping common
> practice in XML tags makes it patentable". Of course, there
> could be
> subtleties here that are more innovative than are apparent at first
> glance, but needless to say it's hard to have any faith that
> the USPTO
> would be able to tell the difference.
>
>
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