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Brit says sorry after waving around nonce patent and leaning on sites to cough up

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Re: The law is clear

RTFM - he was granted the patent in 2011 for an invention that was published in 2005

The US patent office at the time only considered prior art in other patents - it lets the courts deal with things published elsewhere.

So if the exFAT included a patent on ordering files by their initial letter - then I suspect that would be null and void.

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