Stupid US Patent system is stupid

pauldun170 · 10-27-2011, 10:55 AM

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Slide-to...ews-12998.html

Trip · 10-27-2011, 11:00 AM

What's really bad is there is prior art for this patent. There was a windows ce phone back in 05 that had this technology. iPhone did not exist til 07.... They will toss this patent in court. It's already happened in the netherlands, Apple lost.

Trip · 10-27-2011, 11:03 AM

By the way, this patent was approved in February, dumb non researching journalist is dumb.

fatbuckRTO · 10-27-2011, 11:07 AM

Sounds like Motorolla, or someone else who was in the phone business before Apple, needs to go back and retroactively patent the basic idea of a lock/unlock feature for phone functions. Then we could have absolutely nothing in the way of market competition, and Apple would be happy.

Shut out of the phone market, but happy.

But really, this can't be true at all. Steve Jobs was still alive in 2009, when the patent was filed. And we all know now that Steve Jobs was a philanthropist saint who would never do anything to impede progress or monopolize an industry...

Corey · 10-27-2011, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Trip

What's really bad is there is prior art for this patent. There was a windows ce phone back in 05 that had this technology. iPhone did not exist til 07.... They will toss this patent in court. It's already happened in the netherlands, Apple lost.

Neonode N1m

goof2 · 10-27-2011, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by fatbuckRTO

But really, this can't be true at all. Steve Jobs was still alive in 2009, when the patent was filed. And we all know now that Steve Jobs was a philanthropist saint who would never do anything to impede progress or monopolize an industry...

I revel in very few deaths and Jobs' was not one of them, but I did enjoy the selective memory hole people seemed to collectively enter when talking about Jobs after his death. All of a sudden Jobs was some anti-capitalist philanthropic design guru doing it all for the benefit of humankind and Apple was his gift to the world? Really? Isn't this the same guy and company that had to boost salaries by something in the range of 30% at their Chinese contract manufacturer in an attempt to head off bad press because like 13 people killed themselves in a year because building iShit sucks so much?

I liked Jobs and I like Apple, but the most amazing accomplishment they pulled off was convincing idiots like the Occupy Wall Street people that Apple was cool and anti-corporate while Apple became the largest company in the world by market cap.

Trip · 10-27-2011, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by goof2

I revel in very few deaths and Jobs' was not one of them, but I did enjoy the selective memory hole people seemed to collectively enter when talking about Jobs after his death. All of a sudden Jobs was some anti-capitalist philanthropic design guru doing it all for the benefit of humankind and Apple was his gift to the world? Really? Isn't this the same guy and company that had to boost salaries by something in the range of 30% at their Chinese contract manufacturer in an attempt to head off bad press because like 13 people killed themselves in a year because building iShit sucks so much?

I liked Jobs and I like Apple, but the most amazing accomplishment they pulled off was convincing idiots like the Occupy Wall Street people that Apple was cool and anti-corporate while Apple became the largest company in the world by market cap.

Jobs was a dick and he wanted us to be more like China... He wanted companies to have a lot more freedom to do what the fuck they want to make a profit. He ideas were very much against OWS ideology.

Smittie61984 · 10-29-2011, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Trip

Jobs was a dick and he wanted us to be more like China... He wanted HIS companies to have a lot more freedom to do what the fuck they want to make a profit. He ideas were very much against OWS ideology.

Correction

10-27-2011, 11:07 AM	#4
fatbuckRTO This is not the sig line. Join Date: Dec 2008 Moto: Be prepared. What? Oh, moto... Posts: 1,279	Sounds like Motorolla, or someone else who was in the phone business before Apple, needs to go back and retroactively patent the basic idea of a lock/unlock feature for phone functions. Then we could have absolutely nothing in the way of market competition, and Apple would be happy. Shut out of the phone market, but happy. But really, this can't be true at all. Steve Jobs was still alive in 2009, when the patent was filed. And we all know now that Steve Jobs was a philanthropist saint who would never do anything to impede progress or monopolize an industry... __________________ This was no time for half measures. He was a captain, godsdammit. An officer. Things like this didn't present a problem for an officer. Officers had a tried and tested way of solving problems like this. It was called a sergeant. -Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

10-27-2011, 11:00 AM	#2
Trip Hold mah beer! Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: 80 Miles South of Moto Heaven Moto: 08 R1200GS Posts: 23,268	What's really bad is there is prior art for this patent. There was a windows ce phone back in 05 that had this technology. iPhone did not exist til 07.... They will toss this patent in court. It's already happened in the netherlands, Apple lost.

10-27-2011, 11:03 AM	#3
Trip Hold mah beer! Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: 80 Miles South of Moto Heaven Moto: 08 R1200GS Posts: 23,268	By the way, this patent was approved in February, dumb non researching journalist is dumb.