{"id":28,"date":"2005-07-23T17:59:46","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T22:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2005-07-23T17:59:46","modified_gmt":"2005-07-23T22:59:46","slug":"microsoft-wants-to-patent-smilies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/23\/microsoft-wants-to-patent-smilies\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft wants to patent smilies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2005\/07\/23\/microsoft-wants-to-patent-smilies\/\">Om<\/a> (and the <a href=\"http:\/\/appft1.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&#038;Sect2=HITOFF&#038;d=PG01&#038;p=1&#038;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&#038;r=1&#038;f=G&#038;l=50&#038;s1=%2220050156873%22.PGNR.&#038;OS=DN\/20050156873&#038;RS=DN\/20050156873\">US Patents Office<\/a>), Microsoft wants to patent the emoticons. Now I don&#8217;t get surprised by anything anymore, but I think it&#8217;s pretty amusing to imagine whoever was in charge of this:<\/p>\n<p>*Some random legal office*<br \/>\nJim: Hey Susan, how&#8217;s the emoticon project going?<br \/>\nSusan: Oh, finally submitted it to the patents office.<br \/>\nJim: Excellent!<\/p>\n<p>Good thing Despair, Inc. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.despair.com\/demotivators\/frownonthis.html\">trademarked the frownie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Om (and the US Patents Office), Microsoft wants to patent the emoticons. Now I don&#8217;t get surprised by anything anymore, but I think it&#8217;s pretty amusing to imagine whoever was in charge of this: *Some random legal office* Jim: Hey Susan, how&#8217;s the emoticon project going? Susan: Oh, finally submitted it to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}