OIN Posts Details of Microsoft's Anti-Tom Tom Patents 65
number6x writes "LinuxDevices.com is reporting that the Open Invention Network has posted the details of three of the eight patents used by Microsoft in the Tom Tom suit (which Tom Tom settled last month), asking the community for prior art. These patents cover aspects of the FAT file system. You can find them on Post-Issue.org — see numbers 5579517, 5758352, and 6256642. OIN CEO Keith Bergelt believes that these three patents are of tenuous validity and will probably not survive a review. Bergelt believes that there's a good chance that the USPTO may well invalidate them before the end of the year.
Re:Indicative of the brokenness of the system (Score:5, Funny)
Clearly, you should quit your 9-5 job and become a lawyer.
Irony? (Score:3, Funny)
It would be delightfully ironic if Microsoft's use of these patents to troll Tom Tom results in those same patents being invalidated.
Re:Why didnt TomTom look for this stuff? (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps because Tom Tom's business model involves building and selling GPS devices, and not fighting patent battles?
Makes me glad I chose the buisness model I did: Making and selling GPS devices, and also running a secret assasin organization which kills patent trolls that get in my way. With poison darts.
Re:first post (Score:3, Funny)