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OIN Posts Details of Microsoft's Anti-Tom Tom Patents 65

number6x writes "LinuxDevices.com is reporting that the Open Invention Network has posted the details of three of the eight patents used by Microsoft in the Tom Tom suit (which Tom Tom settled last month), asking the community for prior art. These patents cover aspects of the FAT file system. You can find them on Post-Issue.org — see numbers 5579517, 5758352, and 6256642. OIN CEO Keith Bergelt believes that these three patents are of tenuous validity and will probably not survive a review. Bergelt believes that there's a good chance that the USPTO may well invalidate them before the end of the year.

Comment Re:But, is it really for "checking a box"? (Score 1) 186

Sorry, but who rated this asstrumpetry "Informative?"

I will respond in kind.

The poster states that they haven't bothered to read any of the application apart from the few bits they quoted. If you were to bother to read the full (or even significant portions of the) application, you would see that it is pretty clear.

You obviously no nothing about patent law. This is evidenced as much by you stating "or even significant portions" of the application. The significant portions of the application are the claims. Had you carefully read my earlier post, you would have read this. I write that after reading the claims, you should go back to figure out what the claim terms mean. I never gave meaning to the claim terms, nor did I attempt to interpret them. This is a task best left up to litigators and opinion writers.

So, please, until you've had the requisite training and experience to properly interpret claims, keep your opinions to yourself.

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