
Definitely possible
Have you seen the patents in question? Just about every GPS maker would probably infringe at least part of Patent No. 7,054,745, "Method and System for generating Driving Directions", or Patent No. 7,117,286, "Portable Computing Device-integrated Appliance." I seriously can't believe that these patents were granted when they were. There must be prior art for almost all of the claims Microsoft are making. I'm not sure which ones have to do with embedded Linux, apart from, obviously, patent no. 6,256,642, "Method and System for File System Management Using a Flash-Erasable, Programmable, Read-only Memory" and the long file name one (aren't patent titles a bit long?). Why software patents? Why?