Microsoft FAT patents

Timeline

• December 2003: MS starts threatening people[1]
• Rejected in September 2004[2] thanks to the work of PubPat[3] and others.
• Reinstated in January 2006: Microsoft's file system patent upheld

See also

• Microsoft

External links

• PubPat: Microsoft FAT Patent (page out of date)
• Groklaw report on A patch to remove VFAT filename conversion from the Linux kernel,
  • the LKML thread
  • A related FAQ produced by Andrew Tridgell and Linux Foundation