-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Ilugc] Microsoft's FAT patent overturned Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:25:45 +0530 (IST) From: Sivasankar Chander siva@dias.ath.cx Reply-To: schander@mindspring.com To: ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in CC: Sivasankar Chander siva@whitebox.dias.ath.cx

As the subject line says, Microsoft's patent on the FAT filesystem has been overturned by the USPTO on re-examination.

http://www.pubpat.org/Microsoft_517_Rejected.htm

This is good news in embedded space, as well as for users of digicams, mp3 players, etc., most of which make some use of the FAT filesystem.

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