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USPTO Issues Email Address Patent to Microsoft

Posted by timothy on from the oh-sure-why-not dept.

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."

3 of 424 comments (clear)

  1. Women as objects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, in light of this patent let me be the first to patent women as objects. ..

    I kid. I kid.

  2. On the contrary... by tezbobobo · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... we can now sue microsoft for all that lost productivity. Somehow they must be responsible if they own the patent which made me sift through herbal viagra for 40 minutes each day

  3. First violation by 77Punker · · Score: 5, Funny

    struct emailAddress
    {
    string name;
    string location;
    emailAddress()
    {
    name = defaultname;
    location = default@example.com;
    }
    }