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From: | Rahul Dhesi |
Subject: | Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent) |
Date: | Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:59:59 +0000 (UTC) |
User-agent: | nn/6.6.4 |
Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes: >In article <c6ov74$o41$1@blue.rahul.net>, > c.c.eiftj@1-ClickXXS.usenet.us.com (Rahul Dhesi) wrote: >> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes: >> >> >Do you consider advancing the numbers to be "opening an application"? I >> >don't think anyone would seriously consider that to be the same thing as >> >the patented methods. >> >> What does it mean to "open" an "application"? >Since the patent doesn't bother to define them, I assume they're being >used in their normal sense when discussing computer use. In other words, there is no clearly-defined meaning. Presumably whoever drafted that patent carefully selected ambiguous terms that could later be interpreted to mean lots of things. -- Rahul
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