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Aren't the FAT patents about to expire anyway?
by taffer 7y ago
Aren't the FAT patents about to expire anyway?
- WorldMaker 7y agoSome of the earliest ones, surely, but presumably Microsoft also continued to patent later innovations: all of the "extended" in ExFAT.
- viraptor 7y agoThis seems to be one of the patents involved: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=2008168029&KC=&FT=E&locale=en_EP# https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC... I'm not sure what's the expiry on 2008 submission.
- loeg 7y ago20 years from invention? Which looks like ~2004 skimming the 2008 filing.
- pkaye 7y agoThe original ones from the MSDOS days should have long expired. The one with VFAT/FAT32 from the Windows 95 era should have expired a few years back. I think exFAT is probably the last one remaining.
- taffer 7y agoYes I forgot that exFAT is a whole new thing from 2008.