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."

Comments

Smart Tags?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is that when you're a kid on the playground and you're playing tag and when it's your turn to "tag" you go after the pretty girl and you smack her on the butt so hard it smarts? Man, I used to do that all the time to Jodi Jackson. If you had seen this girl's bottom, you'd have done the same damn thing. Yes sir, every time I was "it" everyone knew who I was gonna go tag and where I was gonna tag her...

Re:Haha.. haha

[Anonymous Coward]

'Find out how much easier we've made licensing our communications protocols'

I clicked the link... they made it easier in that you know longer have to sign an NDA to get the pricing and licensing information! Now THAT's customer service!

ER!!! er ...I mean FP!!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

HAhahahahahah!!! http://allyourbasearebelongto.us You have no chance to survive...make your time!!! Somebody set us up teh bomb!!!

Re:Oh no the summary wasn't late

[Anonymous Coward]

Read the damned fucking article. God, does your deep-seated hatred of Microsoft come naturally or does it come from reading slashdot all day?

To be fair, the court said that in the future, it would forgive Hyperphrase of filing past deadline, up to a maximum of four minutes and THIRTY seconds, which is several seconds more than the court allowed MIcrosoft.

But then, it's a joke, see? It's funny! Ha ha ha!

NEIL PEART ROCKS

[Anonymous Coward]

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All your base are still not funny.

[Unknown Kadath]

I notice slashdotters are exercising their usual incisive wit in the comments section of the Corp Law Blog.

Keep it up, guys. If the slashdot moderators don't find you funny, I'm sure the corporate lawyers will.

-Carolyn

Re:Go microsoft.

[asscroft]

-1 flamebait? Because I hope MS wins. Wow. Only on slashdot. Seriously, aren't software patents bad? Or are they only bad when used against Linux/open source (think freevo, mplayer, et al) and good if used against MS. Whatever.