Taskbar grouping patented by MS - Mentions kde-look ml as reference

[Karl-Heinz Zimmer]

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Am Samstag, 3. Juli 2004 02:10 schrieb Pupeno:
> On Friday July 2 2004 07:10, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&
> >
> > http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=113191&threshold=2&commentsort=0&ti
> >d=15 5&mode=nested&cid=9589101
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> So, what happens now ? taskbar grouping will have to be removed from KDE
> ? Where does this patent apply ? USA ? world ?

Al least it is valid for the USA -- as long as we are not able to show
prior art: patent was filed Apr. 6, 2000.

Karl-Heinz
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