"Microsoft has been awarded a patent that could give the company control
over important open standards used in the construction of Web sites."
"Web developers are concerned that the patent, awarded to Redmond last month
by the US Patent and Trademark Office, could threaten the progress of
related Web-site design standards."
"The patent office should reexamine the patent, because we believe they
ignored a number of examples of prior art," said George Olsen, project
leader for the Web Standards Project.
