Microsoft to patent emoticons

Now, why on this earth would Microsoft like to patent emoticons or smilies!

Link: US patent application # 20050156873 with Microsoft Corporation listed as the assignee and Bettina Walter, Thorsen von Seelen and Thorsen Jens as the “inventors”.

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Comments

Anonymous said…

so they can charge for them? what bunch of freakin asshats.

12:26 PM

enginerd said…

Its impossible to even think of Yahoo! without its smilies.

Wonder what got into the heads of these guys at Redmond?

11:17 PM

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