Is Microsoft Ready to Assert IP Rights over the Internet?

Is Microsoft Ready to Assert IP Rights over the Internet?: "Some of the RFC protocols that Microsoft asserts that it may have IP rights over, such as the TCP/IP protocols and the DNS (Domain Name System), form the very bedrock of the Internet's network infrastructure.

'Microsoft does not specify how this list of protocols was derived and to what extent they have investigated their possible rights holdings over these protocols,' Blunk said. 'The list appears to be a near but not completely exhaustive list of public protocols implemented in Microsoft products."
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"Further, because Microsoft provides no reference to any proof of applicable rights holdings [such as patent numbers], it is impossible to ascertain whether Microsoft indeed has legitimate rights holdings."