Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 22nd Apr 2007 16:29 UTC, submitted by BluenoseJake
Little-known intellectual property agency IP Innovation LLC and its parent Technology Licensing Corporation this week became the latest to claim that Apple had abused a patent they hold. Filed April 18th in a US district court in Marshall, Texas the four-page formal complaint purports that Apple has engaged in 'willful and deliberate' infringement of a computer control patent by selling its current Tiger operating system. On a related note, Microsoft has similar problems.
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So, the window is a metaphore for the paper. We can stack them, move them, take them out of sight, reprint (resize, eh) stuff on smaller/larger sheets...
And we *never* classified paper (or, by extension, windows on a GUI) using tabs before, right? And *absolutely no one* would ever think about that, so it's gotta be innovation, gotta be patenteable, right??
Hello?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_folder
There are even pretty pictures on that entry for those who can't get a clue even after severe spanking by The Cluestick(TM).
USPTO, shame on yout! You completely, *completely* lost the very notion of what innovation is!
The suit against MS is just as preposterous as the Kodak one against Sun. The USPTO is granting patents on paradigms, for Divinity's sake.
This has got to stop.