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Adobe Reader Sued

A New Jersey outfit called Textscape LLC sued Adobe in a California federal court last Friday

Sep. 30, 2009 12:00 PM

A New Jersey outfit called Textscape LLC sued Adobe in a California federal court last Friday claiming that Adobe's Acrobat Reader, which must be on every computer in the universe, treads on its patent for processing text. It's asking for unspecified damages. The widgetry involved lets users "obtain information in a body of text without reading the text." Apparently it creates a map box with a representation of the whole text when the text is too big for the screen.

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