Tuesday, 29 December 2015

Stupid Patent of the Month: Microsoft’s Design Patent on a Slider

Stupid Patent of the Month: Microsoft’s Design Patent on a Slider

For the first time ever, this month’s Stupid Patent of the Month is being awarded to a design patent. Microsoft recently sued Corel for, among other things, infringing its patent on a slider, D554,140, claiming that Corel Home Office has infringed Microsoft’s design. The design patent, as detailed by Microsoft in its complaint, is titled “User Interface for a Portion of a Display Screen” and entitles Microsoft to own this:
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