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Microsoft celebrates 10,000 US patents

 
Weeeeeee!? Microsoft announced it's been awarded its 10,000 patent in the US. The big "ten-oh-oh-oh." Quintuple digits. That works out to an average of 294 patents per year since Microsoft was founded.… (link)

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