Apple Patent Application Uses 3rd Party App Screen as Example
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Apple Patent Application Uses 3rd Party App Screen as Example
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Re: Apple Patent Application Uses 3rd Party App Screen as Example
#2Discussed here 6 days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1561364
Re: Apple Patent Application Uses 3rd Party App Screen as Example
#3Sounds like they're hosting the prior art themselves.
Re: Apple Patent Application Uses 3rd Party App Screen as Example
#4Since this was also reported a few days ago, is there an update to the situation?
Have the original app developers made any comments? Anything?
Re: Apple Patent Application Uses 3rd Party App Screen as Example
#5Note that the patent doesn't necessarily cover the functions of the 3rd-party app. It's only the diagram that I'm sure is a copy.
Re: Apple Patent Application Uses 3rd Party App Screen as Example
#6Discussed here 6 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1561364
was there any response from futuretap?
Re: Apple Patent Application Uses 3rd Party App Screen as Example
#7Accurate headline: "Someone clueless about patents glances at a patent application, sees an image that matches an existing app, and assumes that is what is being patented".
The exiting app he's talking about in fact does not appear to do what the patent describes, which would have been apparent had he tried to actually read the patent application.
Re: Apple Patent Application Uses 3rd Party App Screen as Example
#8In the world of silicon valley intellectual property lawyers what you see is hardly never what it is.
Re: Apple Patent Application Uses 3rd Party App Screen as Example
#9Accurate headline: "Someone clueless about patents glances at a patent application, sees an image that matches an existing app, and assumes that is what is being patented". The exiting app he's talking about in fact does not appear to do what the patent describes, which would have been apparent had he tried to actually read the patent application.
Oh yeah, totally, but does that make it OK for Apple to rip off an image?
Re: Apple Patent Application Uses 3rd Party App Screen as Example
#10Accurate headline: "Someone clueless about patents glances at a patent application, sees an image that matches an existing app, and assumes that is what is being patented". The exiting app he's talking about in fact does not appear to do what the patent describes, which would have been apparent had he tried to actually read the patent application.
"But even if you’re fine with that, how about this: one of the diagrams in Apple’s patent application for a travel app is a direct copy, down to the text and the positions of the icons, of an existing third-party app that’s been available on the App Store for years."
he wrote that 'one of the diagrams' was a direct copy. not the entire application. i don't think it's easy to dismiss apple taking the home screen and including it in their patent file. apple may have different functionality beyond the home screen, but they have nonetheless downright copied the home screen.
edit: updated the title, amended 'screen' to the end to clarify