Moom removed from sale due to patent violation claim

Interesting, I guess there's so much prior work around* it should be easy to dismiss the patent.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager

Exactly! The first thing I thought of when I read the title of the patent was the tmux session I had opened in my terminal.

Given how GNU/Unix Screen has been available for thirty years I doubt this patent will hold up in court.

Please go read the patent, it describes an "apparatus and method" that is much more advanced than traditional tiling window managers. The patent doesn't even compare to simple terminal based tiling of sub-shells. It also describes a GUI to control the positions, and describes in detail how it's supposed to work. There is a section "Description of the Related Art" in the patent which makes references to existing (at that time, year 2008) approaches and why they are not good enough. Example: "[...] Windows provides [...] commands which are accessible from the Windows taskbar. However, these commands are not as intuitive as they could be and they do not provide a desired level of control when positioning windows".

Kinda feels the same to me as when they tried to patent Turmeric.