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Story: Microsoft defends its patents

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"Studies routinely rank our innovations among the most significant across any industry. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003, which provided an overall assessment of Microsoft’s intellectual property, found that Microsoft continues to develop relevant patents..."

When a de facto monopolist introduces something new, it is almost inevitably significant, and if the Patent Office deems that when one man invents the screwdriver, the next man may exclude others from using it to drive screws into wood, it is not unlikely that such patents will be relevant. If you want this nightmare to end, contact your MEPs now.

Your potential. Our patents.

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