Re: German court invalidates FAT patent ..

[Alexander Terekhov]

Rjack wrote:
> 
> Doug Mentohl wrote:
> > The Federal Patent Court has declared a Microsoft patent on the
> > file allocation system File Allocation Table (FAT) invalid for
> > the Federal Republic of Germany.
> >
> > The claim in question is the protection claim granted by the
> > European Patent Office under EP 0618540 for a "common namespace
> > for long and short filenames."
> >
> > http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/86141
> 
>  From the heise article:
> 
> "The plaintiff in the action before the Federal Patent Court had
> argued that the subject matter of the challenged patent was prior
> art or if not prior art per se could be easily deduced by a
> specialist at least from prior art."
> 
> This argument ...

The actual arguments (as seen by the court) and the decision can be
inspected here:

http://juris.bundespatentgericht.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bpatg&Art=en&Datum=2006&Sort=3&Seite=9&nr=1659&pos=287&anz=1651&Blank=1.pdf

Interesting reading!

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