USPTO Preliminarily Invalidates Apple's 'Steve Jobs Patent' on the iPhone

Post by monochromatic » Sat, Dec 08, 2012, 3:11 PM UTC

kyrra wrote: post #5

DigitalJack wrote: post #2

If you want to see the prosecution history and documentation of a patent, you can go to the PAIR portal of the uspto[1]. After going through a Captcha, you can then search for a patent# or application #, and then click on the "image wrapper" tab. It's very enlightening to see patents go through rejections and resubmittals, and what the explanations are for rejection or why a rejection should be reconsidered. [1] http…

If you look the patent up on Google Patents, you can download all the "Public PAIR data". It's 56MB for this patent. Inside of the zip there is a file located at: 12101832-image_file_wrapper/12101832-image_file_wrapper.tsv It's a tab-delimited version of the table on the USPTO site for "image file wrapper". It also has all the PDFs in that directory. http://www.google.com/patents/US7479949

Post by monochromatic » Sat, Dec 08, 2012, 3:12 PM UTC

josteink wrote: post #11

May Apple get a big one up the rear. Asshole patent-trolls keeping the software-business back.

Post by lukifer » Sat, Dec 08, 2012, 9:16 PM UTC

linuxhansl wrote: post #19

Finally this is (seeming) insanity is brought to the spotlight. Here's to hoping that between invalidating trivial patents like these and initiatives like Twitters "Innovator’s Patent Agreement" (which requires all inventors to agree before a patent can be used offensively), the current situation will finally come to an end.