From: RobertB 

In article ,
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> & oddly MS is the defendant.....
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> http://www.betanews.com/article/Supreme_Court_Debates_Patentability_of_Softwa
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> "A seemingly simple case regarding whether Microsoft had the right to
> replicate speech recognition software it had licensed -- or rather,
> thought it had licensed -- from AT&T, and then sell that software abroad
> as a component of Windows Vista, has exploded into what is now extremely
> likely to become a landmark case in US patent and copyright law.
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> The US Supreme Court today took up oral arguments in Microsoft's appeal
> of a judgment against it in AT&T v. Microsoft, which has now become
> Microsoft v. AT&T in view of the appeal.
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> During oral arguments this morning, Microsoft attorney Theodore Olson,

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