[OT] Microsoft filled patent applications for scoped and immutable types

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 20:55:26 UTC, Cliff wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 20:27:55 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 08/26/2014 10:13 PM, Cliff wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 19:47:25 UTC, Casper Færgemand
>>> wrote:
>>>> How would this even work?
>>>
>>> It looks like this applies only to the inference of 
>>> immutability
>>> based on the structure of the type and its methods, as 
>>> opposed to
>>> a declaration of immutability.
>>
>> It does not look like that to me.
>
> Hmm, I went and re-read more closely, and it appears the Summary
> differs from the claims in that very important detail...  that
> sucks.

In patents only the claims matter. What is written in the summary 
is not enforceable.