Microsoft Patents 'IsNot'

[Peter Maas]

Peter Maas schrieb:
> Isnot is the inequality operator applied to memory addresses. That these
> are hidden in VB, doesn't make this a new invention worth to be protected.
> E.g. electrical power supplies are a pretty old thing. If somebody would
> try to get a patent on the application of electrical power supplies to
> TVs this would probably (hope so) rejected and so should the application
> of the inequality operator to memory addresses.

I believe what these patent guys get wrong and mixed up is the
difference between inheritance and specialization. If you invent a
power supply that transmits power without using a wire this is an
invention that inherits from power supplies in general and is of
course something new because it has a feature not shared by previous
power supplies. But to simply narrow down the application range is
not new but a trivial twist not worth to be metioned let alone be
patented.

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