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Please tell me Apple isn't going to sue IBM for putting a voice-activated assistant on smartphones...

• ConstantineXVI 14y ago
  I'd wager IBM is the absolute last person anyone would want to tick off on patents.
  • dude_abides 14y ago
    Incidentally, Nuance, the company behind the speech recognition tech in Siri, licenses several patents from IBM. I doubt if there exists any technology today that doesn't infringe on any IBM patent.
    • spitfire 14y ago
      I thought nuance was just a mac based GUI over IBM's dragon speech recognition engine. (IBM bought dragon naturally speaking a few years ago)
      • sureshv 14y ago
        Scansoft bought Dragon before merging with Nuance.
  • jfoutz 14y ago
    Also, they outlasted the DOJ in that 13 year antitrust case. If dedication is the key to success, IBM's legal team has it.