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Anyone really believes this is not coordinated with Microsoft? So the next phase will be when e.g. Wozniak put up a software patent company and sues Microsoft, Google and Nokia? And then some investors in Google will finance a patent troll company which... Patent Armageddon, here we come. :-(
Notification is an area in which iOS is conspicuously lagging behind Android. I wonder if this "peripheral attention" patent has something to do with that.
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Do you think this sort of thing (that programmers would have to concern themselves with reading patents beyond their description) is acceptable?
Do I think it's acceptable that adults are required to have some understanding of how the world around them works? Yes, I do.
The slips of paper (which have now been scanned into a computer; images of them are now available on the internet) are there to mark the occasion of the first person writing that particular series of symbols down on that particular piece of paper. The idea is that if you write a certain series of symbols down on the paper, you are the only person that is to be allowed to do whatever it was that you described with the symbols. If somebody doesn't know about the occasion of you writing down the symbols and does whatever it was you described (well, in this case, predicted they might do), then you are entitled to a portion of that unlucky person's assets.
The entire thing is absurd, and if you can't see that, then I suggest you devote more time to "understanding how the world around you works".
The man is dying, and he's really well off, what is he doing patent trolling ?
I guess he sees his fortune in MS stock declining over the next few years and needs a new revenue stream...
It's been flat for a decade, so why now? The Seahawks are in trouble, so he's turning to other interests?
If he is he's a hero.
If not he's a dick.
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Have you actually read them? Read the claims? They're software patents, so plenty of folk will hate them just based on that... but they really are not poorly drafted patents.
No. As I am not a patent attorney and do not speak legalese, I had to concern myself with the abstract descriptions only. Have you? These appear to cover what is essentially the * symbol appearing over your "notifications" icon after a timeout on facebook, or the (1) appearing on twitter if you leave it idle for long enough and a new tweet appears in your stream. Do you think that this is unique enough an idea that o…
I really hope what he is doing is deliberately launching a ridiculous large scale patent suit designed to fail on a massive scale that will undermine all future software patent suits, and therefore the whole software patent system. If he is he's a hero. If not he's a dick.
Anyone really believes this is not coordinated with Microsoft? So the next phase will be when e.g. Wozniak put up a software patent company and sues Microsoft, Google and Nokia? And then some investors in Google will finance a patent troll company which... Patent Armageddon, here we come. :-(
I did note that MS is not listed as one of the defendants.Odd as I'm sure a cursory look would find an infringement of some sort .