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UK Firm Patents Software Downloads

Posted by timothy on from the handy-things-patents-thousands-of-uses dept.

spike1 writes "The Register has a story about BTG (British Technology Group) acquiring a patent on software downloads ... If this is one area of tech that's not covered by prior art, I don't know what is. Although, the Reg doesn't include a link to the actual patents, out-law.com is also carrying the story and contains links to the patents, and looking at some of their patent synopses, it looks like it's a pretty broad brush."

6 of 56 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Don't Look NOW!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Interesting... got a link to the XPI?

  2. Re:Don't Look NOW!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So when is the Service Pack due out? Service pack 1: 10 PRINT "BILL GAT3S MAK3S 3L33T PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES."; 20 RUN

  3. Re:Don't Look NOW!!! by Jorkapp · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've already begun work on SP1:

    10 PRINT "|31LL G4T35 15 4 31373 |-|4X0|2 |)00|)"
    20 GOTO 10

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  4. Who'd have thought ... by jc42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... that the Web would be useful for installing software?

    But now that these guys have shown us the way, we can all start doing it. It oughta be a lot faster than those punch cards that I'd been using.

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    Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
  5. apt-get by sydb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do I have to take it out of cron now? If I put it in cron, but didn't write apt-get, am I exempt?

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  6. me too .... by turnin · · Score: 2, Funny


    Investor: We decided to invest in Company 1 due to the unique Download patent they had.

    Company 2: oh ... if that is the case we had pending patents on
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    ofcourse with "download" as an old prior art.