Apple Sued for Patent Infringement Over “Fast Booting Process”

Apple has its own share of patent infringement lawsuits and a new one is filed just recently. A Florida-based company called Operating Systems Solutions (OSS) claims that Apple's use of “fast booting operation” for OS X violates at least one protected patent, which details OSS' so-called four-step method for quick booting. The eyebrow-raising part of this patent is that it involves files like config.sys and autoexec.bat, which are very common in many operating systems.

Gadget.com, Apple Sued for Patent Infringement Over “Fast Booting Process”