The Public Patent Foundation put in its sights last year a company people like to take aim at, Microsoft. They asked the U.S. PTO to revoke Microsoft's patent on its FAT (File Allocation Table) file system, in large part out of anger that MS was offering to license FAT on reasonable terms rather than for free, which is what PubPat said was the only fair price to charge open source developers.

Good grief.

Well, Ina Fried in a CNET blog cites a patent examiner's comments posted online August 16 that suggest the patent will be upheld. A Microsoft official told Ina that this was quite promising, while PubPat declined comment. Read the post here.

posted by Patrick Ross @ 4:33 PM | Patents

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