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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Sued by Patent Troll Over Mouse Design

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Sued by Patent Troll Over Mouse Design
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:06:06 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Microsoft sued over mouse 

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| The writ, issued in a Texas district court two days back, alleges 
| that Microsoft, a co-defendant with Designer Appliances Inc, 
| breached patent number 5,576,733 called "Ergonomic Computer Mouse".
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40624


Related:

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| Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his senior
| executives, Bill Gates wrote, “If people had understood how patents would be
| granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents,
| the industry would be at a complete standstill today.” Mr. Gates worried
| that “some large company will patent some obvious thing” and use the patent
| to “take as much of our profits as they want.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html

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