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having a patent is not defend it ... bad patents are not valid

Personally I think they are just too lazy at the patent office to check for prior art.

Actually, its not the patent offices responsibility to check for prior art. It would take them forever to process every patent if they had to do that. That's what the applicant pays lawyers for ... so, if MS's lawers badly advise MS as to the existance of prior art and MS files for a patent on fraudulent claims its only a matter of time before they are held accountable. Problem with MS is they have deep pocketc and could tie up most folks in court for years proving that "TODO" lists existed prior to MS's deep R&D efforts to "INNOVATE" a better means of conducting a SW development process.

Obviously this is a bogus patent, but can you afford to fend off six months of legal crap to enforce your right to use a TODO tag in your JAVA code?

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