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What does this mean for apps like Anki (assuming they’re not the ones who own this patent)?
by save_ferris 7y ago
What does this mean for apps like Anki (assuming they’re not the ones who own this patent)?
- joshvm 7y agoIf I understand correctly this patent is only active in the USA. Anki is based on SuperMemo-2 and they freely admit it. SuperMemo (based in Poland) has pretty liberal licensing: https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/licensing-and-copyrighting-of-supermemo-algorithms https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/licensing-and-copyrighting... I can't see this patent holding up unless it's for a very specific flashcard system. There is prior art on flashcards going back to the 19th century.
- amelius 7y agoOnce a patent is granted, it is very hard to fight the patent using prior art as evidence.
- tzs 7y agoHow much has Anki's handling of flashcards changed since it was first released? Anki was publicly released well before this patent's priority date, and so nothing Anki was doing then can infringe. It's possible that newer feature of Anki infringe, and so worst case they might have to revert those, but the basic Anki functionality is safe.
- graphpapa 7y agoIf Anki or other existing flash card programs are attacked because of this I would consider that quite evil