Watch out Microsoft, your spurious patents may be worthless

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on Sun, 2007-05-13 02:22. [nid:191]

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Microsoft has made a practice of attempting to patent the obvious, not least of which is CMDB, but a recent court ruling gives hope that those they do obtain can be invalidated.

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