Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 15th May 2004 08:23 UTC
It is when I read articles like this that I have "my blood all going up to my head" (that's a Greek saying for people that get angry). So apparently, Apple is trying to patent "transparent windows that do a certain action after fading away". While I don't personally find this "innovation/invention" patentable, it's fine with me: Apple is doing the best it can to secure its business (maybe I would do the same if I had shareholders on my back).
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Wrawrat, it's like you said, the company that applied for the patent didn't enforce it for six years, but that doesn't mean that everyone else should be using it. Enforeced or not, you should still get permission.
"they are trying to patent a subset of stuff that xerox already made."
And they have rights to use Xerox's patents and ideas. In fact, a lot of them are now Apple's patents, as a lot of the patents were given to the developers and not the company, and those developers switched over to Apple.