Microsoft, Apple Sued Over Online Updates

JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
edited July 2004 in Science & Tech
U.K.-based BTG has sued Microsoft and Apple Computer for allegedly infringing a patent which covers Web-enabled software update technologies, the company says.
BTG has filed the lawsuit in the U.S. Federal Court in the Northern District of California in conjunction with New York-based Teleshuttle and Teleshuttle Technologies, the holders of the patent which BTG says is being infringed.

BTG holds the worldwide licensing rights to the patent.
Source: PC World

Comments

  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    Wow, Microsoft and Apple sued at the same time by the same entity. Is this a first?
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited July 2004
    i agree, both of them at the same time?

    they must have big cajones....
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited July 2004
    like cantaloups:)
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited July 2004
    lol

    :rolleyes:;D:thumbsup:
  • BLuKnightBLuKnight Lehi, UT Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    Why don't they sue linux makers as well? They have internet update software built into them? :)
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited July 2004
    Big cajones? No, they have lawyers that smell money...

    KF
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