Editing Double-click (section)

==Patent==
{{Update section|date=November 2024}}
In 2004, [[Microsoft]] was granted a patent on using a double-click on "limited resource computing devices".<ref>[http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6727830.PN.&OS=PN/6727830&RS=PN/6727830 United States Patent: 6727830] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508055850/http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6727830.PN.&OS=PN%2F6727830&RS=PN%2F6727830 |date=2017-05-08 }} US Patent & Trademark Office</ref> As a result of this, some observers fear that any U.S. company which uses double-clicking may have to change their product not to use the technology, pay licensing fees to Microsoft, or give Microsoft access to intellectual property.<ref>[https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn5072-microsoft-gains-double-clicking-patent Microsoft gains double-clicking patent] New Scientist</ref>