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What is the recourse here? Would it be reasonable to contact the person that approved the patent with information showing that plenty flashcard systems precede
by deskglass 7y ago
What is the recourse here? Would it be reasonable to contact the person that approved the patent with information showing that plenty flashcard systems precede this patent? I imagine there is some more formal system.
- smnrchrds 7y ago> What is the recourse here? If you want to make a flashcard program, pray to gods Google will take pity on you and not enforce their patent. Otherwise, you better had set aside a couple of million dollars for the patent fight with Google. I mean, the patent will eventually get invalidated, but not before a decade in courts and millions of dollars in costs. EDIT: Ignore everything I said. I got confused. I apologize. I am not going to change the original comment so the context of the replies would be preserved.
- lern_too_spel 7y agoWhy would Google pay to enforce a patent it doesn't own?
- klipt 7y agoSomebody confused (Google's (patents search)) with ((Google's patents) search)
- ReverseCold 7y agoIt looks like it's a person (not a company) that owns the patent too, so unless this person is a m/billionaire a court case doesn't even sound that bad.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoUntil a troll buys the patent.
- Hnrobert42 7y agoAll patents are granted to people not companies. The people may then assign to a company the right to enforce the patent.
- ReverseCold 7y agoOh, I actually didn't know that. Thanks!
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- learc83 7y agoIt's not a Google patent. The article link is just a link to patents.google.com, which is a Google search engine for patents not a list of patents owned by Google.
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