[Am-info] Now here's some more Microsoft "Innovations"

[John J. Urbaniak]

Microsoft's SGI 3D patents
trickling back to Redmond
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 26/04/2002 at 19:38 GMT

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25053.html

The results of the transfer of Silicon Graphics' 3D
patent portfolio to Microsoft have begun to show up
in the US Patent Office database.

Last October, SGI revealed a payment of $62.5
million from Microsoft for "non core" intellectual
property. In January, we explained what this was.

The US Patent Office now shows three patent
applications assigned to Microsoft Corp. which were
invented at SGI by SGI employees. None of the
 inventors has worked for Microsoft.

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It must be nice to be able to buy "innovative-ness."

John