USPTO Issues Email Address Patent to Microsoft

theodp writes "On Tuesday, Microsoft was granted U.S. patent no. 6,895,426 for treating electronic mail addresses as objects, which Microsoft notes allows email addresses to be easily added to a contact list, copied to the computer's clipboard, or double-clicked to open the related contact information for that email address sender. After the reaction to news of his first patent, betcha inventor Dan Crevier isn't too eager to let folks know about this one."

Comments

Re:My new patent:

[fitten]

Yeah, you cannot argue with zealots. They are stuck in their mode and will not budge.

BTW, patents are kind of designed to stifle competition... why else would they exist? They give the patent holder rights to something and time to attempt to make money off the ideas. That is kind of the definition of stifling competition.

Besides, with all the hypocracy over copyrights - you MUST obey the GPL copyright agreement but MUST NOT obey the RIAA/MPAA/Software copyright agreements - pretty much most of the F/OSS folks aren't worth the time to talk to about it. A bunch of hypocritical zealots who are no different from the Christians (because you can't say anything bad about Zionists, Muslims, or other religious groups because that's either anti-semitism and/or not politically correct) that they frequently deride so heavily. Christians believe in a diety that you have to have faith in but you can't see and a book they call the Bible to read about it. F/OSS Hypocrits believe in a diety that they call Linus (but at least you can touch him) and a book they call the GPL. Other than that, there isn't much difference.

Re:My new patent:

[Solra Bizna]

This post is going to be modded down as "troll" or "flamebait." It doesn't deserve it.

I'm going to try to intercede by saying once again: Those of you with mod points, if you disagree with a post, that doesn't make it a troll! Don't mod it down, RESPOND!

-:sigma.SB