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Microsoft Wins Summary Judgement in Smart Tag Case

dan2bit writes "Business Week reports that a judge in Wisconsin handed down a summary judgement today in favor of Microsoft, defending itself from a patent infringement suit brought by small fish Hyperphrase over the embedding of 'Smart Tags' in Microsoft Office. The suit also produced some amusing minutiae."

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  1. hahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hehehe hmm

  2. First Post? by yajacuk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FIRST POST?

    1. Re:First Post? by yajacuk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Almost, better luck next time, if only I was using a faster provider...

      I fell like that guy on the ebay commercial, that lost his bid because of a few seconds...

  3. FIRST POST MAKES ME LAUGH THE MOST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  4. ugh... by zapp · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Legal humor. I didn' think it could get any worse than "in Soviet Russia...", but I guess it has.

    I tried reading one of the "funny" rulings.. but after about a paragraph i fell asleep.

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    no comment
  5. TOAST!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    toaster,toaster toaser, do you have toast in you yet i think
    so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Im not a toaster!!!!!!!!!!And one more
    thing........YOUR A TOASER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND A COOKIE WITH MILK SOAGE
    MILK!!!!!!!!!!AND A BUTT WITH POOP IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  6. A different perspective by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Our company has a close partnership with Microsoft and the main concern that our executive board has, is that Microsoft does not appear to take privacy concerns too seriously. We are a manufacturer of electronic devices and thereby are always under intense scrutiny by the FCC and the Homeland Security Office.

    We have proposed a twenty-page plan to Microsoft in which we describe that education is the key. Get your client's permission before you take certain liberties. Their response has been positive and we look forward in adding more value in our products with this direction.

    Which is nice.

  7. *snoooore* by l1_wulf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No wonder there aren't any posts on this article, everyone has fallen asleep reading the long-winded crap that was linked. I saved myself with a quick click on the back button.

  8. MOD PARENT UP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought I was the only one who did that as a kid! Except I always went after Jenny Jacobs.

  9. I'm a republican by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh, I'm a Republican
    I got a small schling
    I like to bomb niggahs
    and make a lot o' bling

    I got a bunch o' friends
    in high up places
    They helps me get dem
    government graces.

    You think I'm smart
    I just know who's who
    I couldn't run a fruit stand
    without the red white & blue

    Don't need no history
    Don't need no schoolin'
    I got my ideology
    To keep me a shootin'

    I fancy myself
    A brilliant tactician
    But neither me nor m'buddies
    Could even pass basic trainin'

    See, I'm above all that
    A fightin' and shootin'
    I just say "Sic em!"
    Then run the other direction

    Liberals! Faggots!
    Commies and queers!
    Socialist hippies
    Full o' pussy tears!

    I'll drop some crap
    about Jesus the Christ
    You'll buy it all
    and vote for me twice

    'Fact, Jesus is comin'!
    Real soon, now!
    So we gotta prop up Israel
    That ol' sacred cow

    Propaganda's m'friend
    But I calls it "fact"
    Even though I don't read
    'Cept for Chick tracts

    Facts? No! Don't need em here!
    We're conservatives! We work on FEAR!
    Don't like what we say?
    Well FUCK YOU, bud!
    We'll shove it down yer throat
    and tell ya it's good!

  10. Re:COCK AND BALLS ARE ON TEH SPOKE!!!!11 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Flamebait? Puh-lease. This is just a really efficient crapflood.

  11. Hey Abdul, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Remember to watch for those pesky slashdot spaces...

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