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Microsoft Wants More Credit for Inventions

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the without-microsoft-around-no-one-would-think-of-it dept.

theodp writes "Bill Gates said Thursday that Microsoft expects to file 3,000 patent applications this year, up from a little over 2,000 last year and 1,000 just a few years ago. 'We think--patent for patent--what we are doing is, if anything, more important than what others are doing,' said Gates, perhaps referring to 'Organizing and displaying photographs based on time,' which the USPTO published just hours before Gates spoke."

2 of 422 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why? by RockOutlaw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, absolutely. The "people" must be protected from the evil machinations of "corporations."

    Tell me though, do you say anything else when someone pulls your string, or is that your only phrase?

  2. Re:What next? by ErichTheWebGuy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    hey shut the fuck up u stupid nigger

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