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Microsoft, Apple Sued Over Software Update Patent

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stupid-patent-hurt-the-big-guy-too dept.

mark_wilkins writes "Microsoft and Apple have been sued by Teleshuttle Technologies, LLC, alleging that their online software updating technology infringes a patent on providing online updates to software with a menuing system to permit the user to pick the updates. Apparently the work on which the patent is based supposedly goes back to 1990."

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  1. Re:Um, this is a decent patent by TRACK-YOUR-POSITION · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Except that Microsoft and Apple actually want to lose. They can afford to pay a billion dollars or so to these guys--but free software will be totally screwed (in America and any place else insane enough to emulate our software patent system).

  2. Re:Menuing system by Phisbut · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Yes, they can get Microsoft on this, but there is very little they can do to Apple.

    As long as they can hit Microsoft, it's fine by me.
    (Yes, that was free Microsoft-bashing, but what are you gonna do?)

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