In my last post I talked about the Pros and Cons of patents (admittedly more about the Cons). Now I just received the following link: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003Y1&topic_id=1 . Microsoft surprisingly filed a patent application for a technology called micro charts (also known as Sparklines). From my understanding there is a lot of prior art that stands against such a patent. I hope the USPTO will acknowledge this.
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