[Ilugc] Microsoft's FAT patent overturned
- From: lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Chandrashekar Babu)
- Date: Thu Sep 30 20:26:19 2004
As the subject line says, Microsoft's patent on the FAT filesystem
has been overturned by the USPTO on re-examination.
On the other hand, Microsoft has won patents for double-clicking using
the mouse, and also for the application of the mouse scroll wheel -
which is sad :-(. I heard that they are busy trying to patent anything
that they could lay their hands on, which sounds a bit scary.
Cheers,
Chandrashekar Babu.
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