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Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, e outras são processadas

Nesta segunda feira, a empresa BetaNet, abriu um processo contra 18 empresas, incluindo a Apple, Adobe e a Microsoft.

Arquivado no Distrito Leste do Texas, o processo alega que as empresas violaram a patente “134″, intitulado como “Secure System for Activating Personal Computer Software at Remote Locations.” A patente foi emitida em 22 de junho de 1993, de acordo com o processo.

“The program file contains a first executive control program, representing a limited version of the program file. License transaction information is entered in the registration shell portion, and that information is transmitted from the registration shell to a separate registration program provided in a registration computer. The registration program merges the license transaction information with a second executive control program – representing a complete version of the program file – to generate a unique overlay file. The unique overlay file is transmitted from the registration program to the registration shell, and contains the second executive control program. The overlay file is installed in the main program file, thereby allowing complete operation of the program file.”

As empresa citadas na ação judicial são: Adobe; Apple; Arial Software; Autodesk; Carbonite; Corel; Eastman Kodak Co; International Business Machines Corp; Intuit; Microsoft; McAfee; Online Holdings; Oracle; Rockwell Automation; Rosetta Stone; SAP America; Siemens; and Sony Creative Software.

[Fonte: The Loop]