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Mirror Worlds patents that are probably the issue here: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=XJ4SAAAAEBAJ http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=XJ4SAAAAEBAJ
by pwpwp 16y ago
Mirror Worlds patents that are probably the issue here:
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=XJ4SAAAAEBAJ http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=XJ4SAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=pcASAAAAEBAJ http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=pcASAAAAEBAJ
Personally, I find it outrageous for an academic to demand credit for "inventing" displaying files side by side, searching files by content, and archiving files by time. The Sumerians probably already did this.
- megablast 16y agoSure, they did it. But they didn't do it on a computer. Then on the internet. Then on a mobile device. They are all completely different issues, worthy of an extra patent or two. I am just waiting for the next big thing, so I can patent everything all over again. Do you think iPads count as computers or a completely new device?
- dstein 16y agoPretty much all software patents boil down to "method of organizing information".
- gargantuan 16y agoI'll just file a patent on a business method profiting from patents on methods of organizing information.
- Tichy 16y agoMy first reaction was the same. However, I bet Apple tried to patent these things, too. So it would be sort of balancing justice - you want software patents, let them bite you...