[JDEV] Microsoft Patenting IM Translation

[Bart van Bragt]

Don't patents become void when there has been prior art? I saw some 
people that mentioned prior art on slashdot?

Richard Dobson wrote:
> Microsoft Patenting IM Translation?
> http://slashdot.org/articles/03/07/03/1759201.shtml?tid=155&tid=99
> 
> Looks like we might not be able to do this now.

This proves (again) that software patents just plain suck :\

Bart