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Originally Posted by martinguerre
isn't it possible to defeat a patent if you can show you already made a product like it first?
to get a patent, M$ would have to show they had a unique product. The pre-existing apple software would be evidence to the contrary...
no?
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a patent doesn't mean someone has to have a product, it's just an idea that they have and register it. There's lots of patents out there for ideas that haven't been made yet, such as nuclear powered cars (some Manhattan project person owns that patent instead of the governement) etc.
MS is supposedly registering 3,000 patents per year, up from 2,000.
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