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IsNot is not a trivial software patent

We find it hard to believe that the highly skilled software developers at Microsoft (or their well-known colleagues at Microsoft Research) are unaware of the prior art mentioned above. It is also striking that prior art occurs in one of Microsoft's own products (the language C#). One is tempted to speculate about the intentions of the applicants and their sponsors with this particular patent application. Several possibilities come to mind:

What if our first analysis from a computer science perspective is too naive? Is it still possible to discover some form of innovation or hidden meaning in this application that merits its acceptance? We see the following possibilities for this:


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Paul Klint 2006-05-22