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...
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