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Germany Rejects Microsoft FAT Patent

Posted by kdawson on Thursday March 15, 2007 @02:09AM from the skinny-on-inventiveness dept.

Askmum writes in with news that a German patent court has ruled Microsoft's patent on FAT invalid in that country, finding that it is "not based on inventive activity." Just one of 6,000-odd patents Microsoft has amassed since a 1991 memo from Bill Gates turned around the company's attitude to patents.

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Because... by paulpach · 2007-03-15 02:19 · Score: 0, Redundant

Germans have always preferred skinny patents