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  1. Comment - Microsoft Wins in Supreme Court; AT&T Ruling Overturned

    (May 2, 2007 - 4:15 PM)

    The case does not indicate that software and a computer device on which it is installed is not patentable. It relates to whether the software master disk that Microsoft supplied to an overseas company amounted to supplying a component of a patent invention. The court indicated that it did not, since copies of the master disk were installed on the computers, and the overseas company made the copies, not Microsoft. The overseas company's actions were ok since the US patent did not cover this activity.