[Lilux-info] From /. : " Microsoft Copies Idea, Admits It, Then Patents It"

That is business... of course... "BlueJ[1] is a popular academic IDE which lets students have a visual programming interface. Microsoft copied [2] the design in their 'Object Test Bench' feature in Visual Studio 2005 and even admitted it [3]. Now, a patent application has come to light which patents the very same feature ([4]&[5]), blatantly ignoring prior art." [1] <http://www.bluej.org/> [2] <http://www.bluej.org/vs/vs-bj.html> [3] <http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2005/06/14/428973.aspx> [4] <http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=21> [5] <http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20060101406.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060101406&RS=DN/20060101406> Je n'ai pas (encore) trouvé d'équivalent dans la base de l'EPO...