[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“On Tuesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
reaffirmed a pair of patents held by Microsoft covering the File
Allocation Table, but sources close to the Public Patent Foundation
indicate that this will not be the end of the story of efforts to
overthrow these patents.“Sources said, ‘the re-issuance of the patent is based on the
examiner’s having accepted an argument previously advanced by
Microsoft and previously rejected in the history of the patent, so
documented on the file wrapper (the docket sheet of activity which
accompanies each patent).’ Therefore, the PUBPAT (the Public Patent
Foundation) is ‘not precluded from bringing a new reexamination
request, and there is every reason to believe that (it) will be
doing so…'”