Star Microsoft Fails to Patent FAT in Germany
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Mar 2007 17:12 UTC, submitted by Almafeta
Microsoft While the US courts recently reaffirmed Microsoft's FAT patents, the German Patent Federal Court has just dismissed the patent for use in Germany. According to a report in the German news publication Heise Online, the court has denied the protection that the European Patent Office granted to Microsoft under EP 0618540 for a "common namespace for long and short filenames". This was based on Microsoft's U.S. Patent No. 5,758,352. The German Patent Court stated that the patent claims Microsoft made are "not based on inventive activity".
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RE: I Want A Patent!
by ronaldst on Tue 13th Mar 2007 19:49 UTC in reply to "I Want A Patent!"
ronaldst
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2005-06-29

You want MacOS X? O_o

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RE[2]: I Want A Patent!
by m_abs on Tue 13th Mar 2007 20:18 in reply to "RE: I Want A Patent!"
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2005-07-06

Obviously not, he said bloated.

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v RE[2]: I Want A Patent!
by Supreme Dragon on Tue 13th Mar 2007 20:24 in reply to "RE: I Want A Patent!"
RE[2]: I Want A Patent!
by archiesteel on Tue 13th Mar 2007 21:06 in reply to "RE: I Want A Patent!"
archiesteel Member since:
2005-07-02

Please stop trolling. Both of you.

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