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| DATE | 2004-09-30 |
| FROM | Michael Richardson
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] RE: [fairuse-talk] MS FAT Patent Overruled by USPTO
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth Johnson [mailto:seth.johnson-at-realmeasures.dyndns.org]
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 1:16 PM
> To: fairuse-talk-at-nyfairuse.org
> Subject: [fairuse-talk] MS FAT Patent Overruled by USPTO
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [IP] Microsoft patent on FAT overturned by theUSPTO on
> re-examination
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:45 -0400
> From: Dave Farber
> To: ip-at-v2.listbox.com
>
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>
> ..... Forwarded Message .......
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
> To: dave-at-farber.net, declan-at-well.com
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:06:00 +0530
> Subj: Microsoft patent on FAT overturned by the USPTO on
> re-examination
>
> http://www.pubpat.org/Microsoft_517_Rejected.htm
>
> PUBPAT NEWS > at PUBPAT's Request, Patent Office Rejects
> Microsoft's FAT
> Patent
>
>
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> September 30, 2004
>
>
>
> at PUBPAT's Request, Patent Office Rejects Microsoft's FAT
> Patent: All
> Claims of Reynolds '517 Patent Ruled Invalid
>
>
>
> NEW YORK -- In the reexamination proceeding initiated earlier
> this year
> by the Public Patent Foundation ("PUBPAT"), the United States
> Patent and
> Trademark Office has rejected all of the claims of Microsoft's
> patent on
> the FAT file system, which Microsoft describes as "the ubiquitous
> format
> used for interchange of media between computers, and, since the
> advent
> of inexpensive, removable flash memory, also between digital
> devices."
>
>
>
> Relying predominantly on evidence provided by PUBPAT when the
> reexamination was requested, the Patent Office made multiple
> rejections
> of the Redmond, WA based software giant's patent. Microsoft has
> the
> opportunity to respond to the Patent Office's rejection, but
> third party
> requests for reexamination, like the one filed by PUBPAT, are
> successful
> in having the subject patent either narrowed or completely
> revoked
> roughly 70% of the time.
>
>
>
> "The Patent Office has simply confirmed what we already knew for
> some
> time now, Microsoft's FAT patent is bogus," said Dan Ravicher,
> PUBPAT's
> Executive Director. "I hope those companies that chose to take a
> license from Microsoft for the patent negotiated refund clauses
> so that
> they can get their money back."
>
>
>
> More information about the reexamination of Microsoft's FAT
> patent,
> including a copy of the Patent Office's Office Action rejecting
> all of
> its claims, can be found at PUBPAT Activities > Protecting the
> Public
> Domain.
>
>
>
> Contact:
>
>
>
> Daniel Ravicher, Executive Director, Public Patent Foundation:
> 212-545-5337; info-at-pubpat.org; www.pubpat.org.
>
>
>
> About PUBPAT:
>
>
>
> The Public Patent Foundation ("PUBPAT") is a not-for-profit legal
> services organization working to protect the public from the
> harms caused by the patent system. PUBPAT provides the general
> public, particularly those persons or businesses otherwise
> deprived of access to the system governing patents, with
> representation, advocacy, and education. To be kept informed of
> PUBPAT News, subscribe to the PUBPAT News List by sending an
> email with "subscribe" in the subject line to
> news-request-at-pubpat.org.
>
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