Comments on: Microsoft has a software patent for a "Task list window for use in an IDE" http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2004/06/09/378 David Intersimone (David I) CodeGear blog about programming, languages, history, and more. Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:59:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 By: Kyle Miller http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2004/06/09/378#comment-639 Kyle Miller Mon, 21 Jun 2004 07:52:50 +0000 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2004/06/09/378#comment-639 This begs the question, "Can Microsoft patent a pre-existing idea?" Maybe they didn't know Borland did this years ago. Maybe they figure the patent office wouldn't know either. This begs the question, "Can Microsoft patent a pre-existing idea?" Maybe they didn’t know Borland did this years ago. Maybe they figure the patent office wouldn’t know either.

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