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MS Patents: weapons against linux?

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Claris:
I thought that in order to get a patent you actually had to have your own ideas...

WMD:

quote:Originally posted by Claris:
I thought that in order to get a patent you actually had to have your own ideas...
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No, you just have to have an idea that no one else patented already.  :mad:

flap:
No, if the idea already exists it's prior art and can't be patented by someone else. It doesn't have to have been patented previously to be unpatentable.

WMD:

quote:Originally posted by flap:
No, if the idea already exists it's prior art and can't be patented by someone else.
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Ah, but MS doesn't seem to think so.  :(

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