Company Claims Patent Over XML

Aviran Mordo writes "News.com reports that a small software developer plans to seek royalties from companies that use XML, the latest example of patent claims embroiling the tech industry. Charlotte, N.C-based Scientigo owns two patents (No. 5,842,213 and No. 6,393,426) covering the transfer of 'data in neutral forms.' These patents, one of which was applied for in 1997, are infringed upon by the data-formatting standard XML, Scientigo executives assert."

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[nyxon]

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Re:Prior Art: 1960

[John Nowak]

You should duck -- All this Perl bashing drives me nuts. For parsing text files, no language is faster to code in. Perl bashing is for pansies that can't hack it. Rawr!!

Re:One word - EDIFACT

[Cobralisk]

My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark.