How is it you are aware of this? Affiliation with MS or a project that ran into it?
Wouldn't the key part:
"and
in response to completion of a task, modifying the task list during the interactive code development session to indicate that the task has been completed."
mean it doesn't apply?
Worst case, just put a US exclusionary clause in the release so US copyright law doesn't apply. At least Europe is ahead of the US in this and doesn't allow such trivial patents and considers them invalid by definition.
Wouldn't the key part:
"and in response to completion of a task, modifying the task list during the interactive code development session to indicate that the task has been completed."
mean it doesn't apply?
Worst case, just put a US exclusionary clause in the release so US copyright law doesn't apply. At least Europe is ahead of the US in this and doesn't allow such trivial patents and considers them invalid by definition.