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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."

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  1. Photoshop Album? by flimnap · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is it just me, or is the display of photos by time on a calendar exactly what Photoshop Album 1 did?

    Hurrah for innovation!

  2. It's hard to swallow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft really wouldn't be where it is today if software patents existed back when they started.

    http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/knuth-to-pto.txt

    They should have a little more respect for the name of Technology.

  3. Re:And the best part of the article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

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