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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RE[2]: PRIOR ART!! Cf: real life.
by meianoite on Sun 22nd Apr 2007 18:57
in reply to "RE: PRIOR ART!! Cf: real life."
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If you are an American, and you want this to stop, write to your local congressman, now.
Suffice to say, I am not. But I happen to be affected by it because I'm part of the wrong side of the industry; namely, I'm a computer scientist (BD) and I could well eventually be hired by startups, big companies, or anything in-between. So you see, "all-american" patent trolls will eventually affect me in a way or another. And I'm not alone; see how fast the IT industry is growing in India, China, the whole South America, and the Eastern Europe. We might not be able to sell, in the U.S., products we develop, if they happen to infringe on some obviety the USPTO considered innovative and granted exclusive licensing rights to some random patent troll.
Sorry if I happen to care about the USPTO situation, but if that makes you feel better, quite frankly, I'm also covering my own ass.
Edit: grammar. And there are probably a handful of errors left. It should be pretty obvious by now I'm NOT a native speaker.
Edited 2007-04-22 18:59
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