Microsoft patent claim a 'spoiling tactic'
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| Microsoft's claim that Linux infringes its patents was dismissed
| today as a tactic to spoil a European conference on rationalising
| the law on the subject.
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http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/news/2190147/microsoft-patent-claim-spoiling
http://tinyurl.com/yp7s3s
The Be Very Afraid Tour and a Word About that Patent Study
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| Thanks to a patent system that went overboard issuing patents,
| which the Supreme Court in its recent KSR ruling brings to a
| screeching halt, many previously issued patents aren't worth
| the paper they are printed on. Nearly half of all patents that
| were brought to trial under the old patent system's definition
| of obviousness were thrown out. If you apply KSR's standard of
| nonobviousness, as the highest court says you must, how many
| patents would survive? What, you think Microsoft's patent on
| IS NOT is not obvious? So the threat isn't as big as it might
| appear.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070517083516872
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