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| Authored by: kawabago on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 07:32 PM EDT |
How the USPTO can come to the conclusion that searching here
and there is a patentable invention I can't imagine. Several
software installation tools from linux would search the local
drive and then the internet for a match. There are so many
instances of this patent being practiced before 2000 that it
is obviously a trivial detail, not an invention.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: jvillain on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 09:23 PM EDT |
| I was wondering if having a mounted share actually invalidates the patent? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 19 2012 @ 08:19 AM EDT |
IIRC the MSDN docs with Visual Studio 97 definitely searched
multiple sources.
You would have through that developer IDEs are good examples
- they often search generated documentation from the current
application as well as pre-built library references / help -
using different algorithms to do so.
(ps there's no chance I'll actually submit this - if it's
applicable then any readers can feel free to do the
research/ submit it)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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