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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