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Microsoft May Face Trial Over 'autoplay' Feature | |
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| Time: 14:11 EST/19:11 GMT | News Source: InfoWorld | Posted By: Joshua Baer | ||
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Microsoft Corp. faces a trial in a patent infringement suit over the "autoplay" feature in Windows that automatically starts an application after storage media is loaded into a PC. TVI charges 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." Additionally, TVI charges that Microsoft patent 6,366,966, entitled "method and system for automatically running a program" interferes with the TVI patents as it covers a TVI invention, according to case records filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. | ||
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| #1 By 10022 (24.169.19.69) at 2/10/2004 5:37:51 PM |
| good, now i wont be bothered by the damn thing and wont have to keep turning it off all the time! |
| #2 By 531 (199.36.37.55) at 2/10/2004 9:01:15 PM |
| What a bunch of crap. Who own's the patent on a spoon? I'll be MSFT uses those, too. Let's sue the hell out of them, those spoon-using jerks... |
| #3 By 12071 (203.185.215.149) at 2/10/2004 10:08:15 PM |
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#4 I'm sure you could argue that a VCR still starts up a process to play the video, unless that patent defines "process" in the computing sense.
#6 Would this be the spoon patent you're interested in? http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=8&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=spoon.TTL.&OS=ttl/spoon&RS=TTL/spoon There was also a patent out on the Spork (Spoon/Fork): http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blspork.htm |
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