Date: 01/12/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

The US Patent and Trademark Office has declared that patents Microsoft holds on file allocation tables (FAT) are valid. Unfortunately Linux OS uses FAT file system. Public Patent Foundation had moved last year to declare FAT patents invalid , but the US Patent Office ruled that the patent techniques are new and non obvious. Florian Mueller, a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-fat-patents-declared-valid-trouble-for-linux/