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Microsoft Patenting Like Mad

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 27, 2004 02:33 AM
<A HREF="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/25/1346201&mode=thread" TITLE="slashdot.org">Microsoft Seeks Patent On Virtual Desktop Pager</a slashdot.org> with a link to the actual patent application filing <A HREF="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220030189597%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20030189597&RS=DN/20030189597" TITLE="uspto.gov">here</a uspto.gov>.

Given the USPTO's track record at issuing software patents, chances are this and other future patent filings by microsoft will get issued.

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