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Microsoft attempt to Patent FAT

Serbian · 2004-11-12 10:16:41

From cbronline.com First they patent the 'Double Click', now they attempt to patent FAT tables? I wonder what they will think of next.

12-11-2004 10:16am

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From cbronline.com

1 Oct 2004, 09:51 GMT -
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) rejected Microsoft's file allocation table (FAT) patent as being "unpatentable", citing existence of prior art. The USPTO said of the technologies comprising FAT: "It would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art at the time." ...

Microsoft last November released FAT under a commercially reasonable, non-exclusive license charging licensees $0.25 per unit up to a limit of $250,000.

First they patent the 'Double Click', now they attempt to patent FAT tables? I wonder what they will think of next.

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They were attempting to get money for old rope AFTER realising that almost every USB / Flash device was using FAT. This is also why the details of NTFS will be kept closely guarded.

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