FAT not the problem

Posted Dec 9, 2003 4:17 UTC (Tue) by larryblunk (guest, #12587) [Link]

Patent 5,579,517 mentions a couple of articles from PC Magazine
on "long file names and extended attributes" that were published
in April and May of 1990. They were written by one of the patent
authors, Ray Duncan. However, the initial patent application
was not filed until April 1, 1993. I was under the impression
you only had a year to file from the date of the initial publication
of the details of your patent claims. Perhaps, the extensions
mentioned in the PC Magazine articles are substantially different
from what's in the patent claims. However, it would seem to be
worthwhile to look up these articles. I wonder if the patent
examiner even bothered to do this?