The Register is carrying a story on the latest in the line of asinine patent suits. A British IP firm named BTG has claimed that Microsoft and Apple have infringed on its patents on "web-enabled software update technologies".
BTG claims Microsoft's and Apple's operating systems, and MS Office products, infringe patented technologies. The suit was filed in the Federal Court of Northern California.It seeks unspecified royalty payments for past infringements and injunction against future uses of its software.
A second suit against Microsoft alleges that Active Desktop and parts of its offline browsing technology are in breach of Teleshuttle Technologies patents, according to Reuters.
Here we go again..
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