They might be an honest, hard-working group of good people who got tricked and steamrolled by their business partner (Microsoft).
But their patent is still crap.
The first claim of the '449 patent covers essentially any code that maps external XML data into a document. There is simply too much existing art in the file manipulation and database domains for this to be anything but obvious.
But their patent is still crap.
The first claim of the '449 patent covers essentially any code that maps external XML data into a document. There is simply too much existing art in the file manipulation and database domains for this to be anything but obvious.