> Acrobat, for example, does not (I believe) use ActiveX as Flash and > many > others do: Acrobat uses OLE (the Acrobat reader opens within IE, adding > custom toolbars and such just an Office app would, but can also open as > a stand-alone application). > Even though Acrobat Reader is not specifically a plug-in, the application itself is embedded by IE thus falling under this patent. It doesn't matter what method is used to integrate an application with a browser in terms of this patent; all that matters is that you have two distinct applications integrated together, with one controlling the other for the purposes of handling something embedded in hypertext.
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