As I posted in my LJ:

Whatever respect I had for that company has now gone completely out the window. Wasn't double-clicking employed by Apple before it was used in Windows, and in the Xerox operating system everyone ripped off before Apple used it? The Patent Office is just as ridiculous as Microsoft for letting something like this go through.

What a terrible idea. The Onion weren't too far off the mark when they made that "Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes" article.