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TVI to Sue Over MS Autoplay Feature

Posted by timothy on from the mmm-overbroadness dept.

scubacuda links to this Infoworld article, which reads in part "TVI charges Microsoft's autoplay feature infringes on four of its U.S. patents. TV Interactive Data Corp. (TVI) of Los Gatos, California, claims that Microsoft infringes on four of its U.S. patents, three entitled 'host device equipped with means for starting a process in response to detecting insertion of a storage media' and one entitled 'method for starting up a process automatically on insertion of a storage media into a host device.", writing "I hope no one has a patent on the shift key, because that's what I hit when I insert a CD. (That is, when I haven't already edited the registry)" Wouldn't automount / autofs fall under the same shadow?

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  1. Prior-Prior Art by GoofyBoy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    8 track tapes.

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  2. VCR by TheTomcat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    My parent's old-school VCR would automatically play tapes when inserted..

    S

  3. Obvious Prior Art by Jemm · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sex

  4. Dont forget Apple by nurb432 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mac's had something similar..

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