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New Patent from Apple Introduces Platform Independent Word Processor
- jzoidberg 15y agoApple sneakily patents Google Docs on the sly - I bet Google didn't see that coming.
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoYeah, but the prior art would make the lawsuit a bitch.
- stcredzero 15y agoUnfortunately, prior art doesn't mean as much as we think it should sometimes.
- watmough 15y agoscribd surely has prior art on this, in relation to their platform independent rendering of an intermediate representation of textural and graphical documents.
- jzoidberg 15y agoI dont know if that means anything anymore: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
- Niten 15y agoWait, am I missing something here? How is this anything but a patent on the not-exactly-cutting-edge concept of a web application? Even if you think that performing some rendering computations server-side is somehow a patentable innovation, there's plenty of prior art out there already doing so. Score another one for the broken patent system.
- kalleboo 15y ago"Apple states that although the present invention is primarily described in the context of a browser-based word processing system, the present invention could in fact be more generally applied to any system that renders textual information in a platform-independent manner and is not meant to be limited to word-processing systems or browser-based systems." So... they patented PDF? Don't Adobe have patents that clash with this?
- rst 15y agoAlso, TeX's DVI format, Metafont, and their common structure of platform-independent font metrics and layout computations, and the notion of testing for consistency across platforms.
- sukuriant 15y ago... is this serious? No. Really. What?
- yoda_sl 15y agoThis sounds like iWork.com that was introduced a few years back. Create your documents in Pages on desktop and you can share it online with an almost similar rendering.
- ajarmoniuk 15y agoThey should definitely sue Google now.