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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Member since:2007-04-22
That's funny. I'm in the same state as you (Arizona).
I wrote to Rick Renzi (my rep) last year about this issue and he sent me back a letter saying how hard he was fighting to "make Social Security more secure" and a bunch of other unrelated blather. I've always thought the guy was worthless (but a perfect representative of Yavapai County), but sheezus - I would have thought a staffer would have *at least* sent the correct form letter response.
The truth is your US rep (with a few exceptions here and there) could give a damn what you write or think. Now, if Microsoft or Qwest gives the congresscreature THEY own a call, things might change. Ironic that our best hope is from the scum that helped create this mess in the first place - which doesn't hold out much hope for our future.
Member since:2005-07-18
Years ago I emailed President Clinton with my views on some issue. I got back an email by an auto-responder telling my what a great guy the president is. Based on that and pundits' comments, I've come to the conclusion that most email to politicians is a total waste of time and bandwidth.
That's different than mail sent on paper via snail mail, which I still do occasionally. I usually get an on-topic reply, even if I don't like it.
Software patents stink and it would be best to let Congress know--via the Post Office.
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2005-07-06
...I just sent email to my 2 senators, Kyl and McCain.
It's easy... go to:
http://[your senator's last name].senate.gov
Eg.
http://kyl.senate.gov or http://mccain.senate.gov.
They all have contact forms.
Edited 2007-04-22 21:49