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USPTO to Review Microsoft FAT Patent







USPTO to Review Microsoft FAT Patent

USPTO to Review Microsoft FAT Patent 06/11/2004 07:15 PM

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to a request that it reexamine a patent granted to Microsoft covering the FAT file system used in Windows. A non-profit group called The Public Patent Foundation asked the USPTO in April to revoke the patent on grounds that FAT has become a ubiquitous format found in numerous devices.




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