# Microsoft Patents Your Keys

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/microsoft-patents-your-keys/121768>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 6, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/microsoft-patents-your-keys/121768 "2004-09-06T21:53:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![idoik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@idoik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/idoik)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/microsoft-patents-your-keys/121768/1 "2004-09-06T21:53:41Z")

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> Microsoft’s endlessly creative legal department is constantly on the lookout for new completely obvious acts and items to patent. Once again they’ve managing to win a patent on something most of us use every day. Microsoft now owns the rights to using your keyboard to browse the web.

[SIZE=1]story from news wire @ [Suicidegirls.com](http://Suicidegirls.com)[/SIZE]

[Patent 6,785,865…](http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,785,865.WKU.&OS=PN/6,785,865&RS=PN/6,785,865)

click the pattent link to see. such use of tab