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actual patents

actual patents

Posted Dec 8, 2003 19:40 UTC (Mon) by drathos (guest, #6454)
In reply to: actual patents by vblum
Parent article: Microsoft aiming IBM-scale patent program at Linux? (Register)

I just looked up all four on the USPTO site. The earliest of them is dated Nov 26, 1996 (filed April 4, 1995) and, based on the summaries, they all relate to maintaining both long and short filenames in the filesystem.


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