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6,175,789 (Vehicle computer system with open platform)

6,175,789 (Vehicle computer system with open platform)

Posted Feb 26, 2009 11:22 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: 6,175,789 (Vehicle computer system with open platform) by ketilmalde
Parent article: Microsoft sues TomTom

The reason patents are constructed like this is so that any individual claim that is invalidated does not cause all claims to fail - however if you target the 'root' claims then you could get a 'cascade invalidate' of many dependent claims.


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