M$ “double-click” Patent…
Microsoft has been granted a patent for double clicking and for different functions based on the time a user presses a (mouse) button, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. US Patent No. 6,727,830, granted on April 27, 2004, is being protested by the New York-based Public Patent Foundation, as Microsoft last year said said ‘it would be seeking to improve earnings from technology which it claims it invented and would be using its patent portfolio to do so.
Are they really hurting that bad for money??