Rjack wrote: > > Doug Mentohl wrote: > > The Federal Patent Court has declared a Microsoft patent on the > > file allocation system File Allocation Table (FAT) invalid for > > the Federal Republic of Germany. > > > > The claim in question is the protection claim granted by the > > European Patent Office under EP 0618540 for a "common namespace > > for long and short filenames." > > > > http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/86141 > > From the heise article: > > "The plaintiff in the action before the Federal Patent Court had > argued that the subject matter of the challenged patent was prior > art or if not prior art per se could be easily deduced by a > specialist at least from prior art." > > This argument ...
The actual arguments (as seen by the court) and the decision can be inspected here: http://juris.bundespatentgericht.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bpatg&Art=en&Datum=2006&Sort=3&Seite=9&nr=1659&pos=287&anz=1651&Blank=1.pdf Interesting reading! -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
