
We're all familiar with the fact that Apple has trouble managing its App Store. While it is overflowing with applications, Apple governs it willy-nilly, and the web is rife with stories from developers who had their application rejected for no apparent reason. There's now a new issue we can add to the list. Are you an iPhone developer? Do you want a similar, competing application out of the App Store? All you need to do is send an infringement claim to Apple, and they'll happily threaten to remove the competing application without a second thought.
Update: And
here's a similar case, about Stoneloops! vs. Luxor.
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2005-06-29
Did you read - at all?
There is no patent. Heck, there is no filed/pending patent. They are preparing to submit a patent.
If that is reason enough to kick someone out of the App Store, then I hereby state that I am preparing a patent on using the iPhone as a remote control. Apple, please remove all remote control applications - including your own - from the App Store.
Thank you.