Patent Madness

Apparently Microsoft has been granted a patent for ‘Page Up’ and ‘Page Down’ keystrokes.  This prevents anybody else from using the same feature to scroll up and down a page length of their documents.

Interestingly enough it comes a day after I read about Apple receiving a patent on its dock concept, 9 years after it filed for it.  So in the meantime are the developers of the dock I have been using on my SuSE notebook for the last two years in violation of this  patent, and can they get sued?

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