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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2005-08-17
You're missing the point.
Patents are fine (as long as they are actually innovation.)
Software patents are a terrible idea.
Patents are given to encourage innovation and research and to prevent companies from having to keep their discoveries as trade secrects.
The problem with Software patents is that innovation is already happening at a great rate in the software industry, So it doesn't need encouragement.
But the USA patent system is terribly broken because patents aren't getting proper review before being granted.