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What has changed since then?
by ambicapter 11y ago
What has changed since then?
- digi_owl 11y agoBasically that software can be patented. Back during the 70s-80s, a specific set of code was covered by copyright. But the behavior encoded could be reverse engineered. A famous example is how Compaq clean room reverse engineered the BIOS of the IBM PC, thus opening up the market for the clones. In constrast there are all kinds of issues with using FAT (FAT32/ExFAT) variants on Android phones because MS have/had patents. And i think Android early on didn't offer things like pinch to zoom because Apple held a patent (not sure what happened there).
- lordnacho 11y agoI asked a patent lawyer in Switzerland about this, and the law is different to the US. Does that create any openings?
- digi_owl 11y agoIANAL, but i suspect it will depend on how much you want to trade with USA...
- realityking 11y agoNot if you want to sell your product in the US...
- cenal 11y agoUS Patent Office rejected the Apple Patent on Pinch to Zoom: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2045461/us-patent-office-rejects-claims-of-apple-pinch-to-zoom-patent.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2045461/us-patent-office-reje...
- digi_owl 11y agoFrom as late as 2013. It still produced a whole bunch of FUD back when Android 1.x devices were shipping. And a whole bunch of "see how inferior the Android offering is" articles...