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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”.

[via p2p.net]

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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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