From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAT and Microsoft patent?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:46:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C5284F.8020104@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0601111026300.27240@chaos.analogic.com>
linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Christopher Friesen wrote:
>
>
>>According to various sources, the USPTO has ruled that Microsoft's
>>patent on FAT is valid.
>>
>>Does this impact Linux? Will we have to remove the filesystem?
>>
>>Chris
>
>
> You mean the expired patent circa 1980 for their first use of this
> technology?
No, I mean the three listed on Microsoft's website:
# U.S. Patent #5,579,517 "Common name space for long and short
filenames" Nov 26, 1996
# U.S. Patent #5,758,352 "Common name space for long and short
filenames" May 26, 1998
# U.S. Patent #6,286,013 "Method and system for providing a common name
space for long and short file names in an operating system" September 4,
2001
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-11 14:59 FAT and Microsoft patent? Christopher Friesen
2006-01-11 15:31 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-11 15:43 ` Ram Gupta
2006-01-11 15:46 ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
2006-01-11 15:59 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-11 15:52 ` Roger Heflin
2006-01-11 15:49 ` Christopher Friesen
2006-01-11 15:57 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-01-11 17:48 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-11 16:12 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-11 17:13 ` Rik van Riel
2006-01-11 17:20 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-01-11 15:51 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-11 15:35 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-11 15:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-11 18:47 ` Jeff V. Merkey
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