Scientigo is a United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 company based in Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Mecklenburg County. In 2010, Charlotte's population according to the US Census Bureau was 731,424, making it the 17th largest city in the United States based on population. The Charlotte metropolitan area had a 2009...

 that began asserting patent

Patent

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 claims over XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

 technology in 2005. Since SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), from which XML (Extensible Markup Language) is derived, dates from the 1960s, and the patents were applied for in 1997, the notion that Scientigo's patents cover XML has been rejected by patent attorneys and other commentators including Microsoft.

The company has purchased a 51% stake in the URL find.com. According to Scientigo-issued press releases, they plan to use find.com to utilize their tigo|search technology.

Scientigo received a BERTL award in 2006 for document content retrieval and search technologies.

External links

• Scientigo homepage, entitled "Method for modeling, storing, and transferring data in neutral form", a continuation of