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What would happend if Microsoft sue you based on an Old Patent (FAT, DOS filesystem)  ? Of course, you place a countersuit to Microsoft based on your patents.

Also, you join the Open Innovation Network to share your patent rights along a network of associates, and increase the patent inventory.

That's briefly TomTom's Quest.

 		 TomTom's Quest against Microsoft
At the end, Software Patents are useless. The only reason to have them is to avoid future lawsuits, to be able to countersuit, or as a defense movement against patent trolls. Nobody talking about real Innovation and Protection.

Source: Groklaw, Microsoft's Complaint against TomTom, Now TomTom Sues Microsoft for Patent Infringement, and CNET TomTom joins open-source patent collective.

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Microsoft and TomTom settle patent dispute
1 Tuesday, 31 March 2009 17:18
AnibalS
Microsoft and TomTom have settled their controversial patent dispute, which included allegations that the Linux kernel infringes on Microsoft's filesystem patents. TomTom has licensed the patents from Microsoft, but intends to remove from its Linux kernel the code that is covered by the patents. Source: ArsTechnica http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/03/microsoft-and-tomtom-settle-patent-dispute.ars
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