Re: FAT and Microsoft patent?

["Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>]

linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Christopher Friesen wrote:
>
>
> > According to various sources, the USPTO has ruled that Microsoft's
> > patent on FAT is valid.
> >
> > Does this impact Linux?  Will we have to remove the filesystem?
> >
> > Chris
>
>
> You mean the expired patent circa 1980 for their first use of this
> technology?

No, I mean the three listed on Microsoft's website:

# U.S. Patent #5,579,517 "Common name space for long and short 
filenames" Nov 26, 1996

# U.S. Patent #5,758,352  "Common name space for long and short 
filenames" May 26, 1998

# U.S. Patent #6,286,013 "Method and system for providing a common name 
space for long and short file names in an operating system" September 4, 
2001

Chris
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