Microsoft FAT patent rejected - again

Posted by tadelste on Oct 6, 2005 6:31 AM EDT
The Register; By Andrew Orlowski
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The US Patent and Trademarks Office has thrown out two Microsoft patents on its FAT file system. The case had been raised by open source defenders who feared that Microsoft was preparing a legal offensive against Linux based on enforcement of intellectual property rights. But the Patent Office rejected the patents because of an administrative technicality - not because of prior art submitted by the F/OSS team.

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