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Once again, reading snippets from a patent does nothing. You might as well read a copyrighted story and exclaim in horror "Well this is rich, he's trying to cla
by brian_cloutier 14y ago
Once again, reading snippets from a patent does nothing. You might as well read a copyrighted story and exclaim in horror "Well this is rich, he's trying to claim 'Once upon a time' for himself!"
A patent does not claim every single thing that is listed. An infringing device must contain every single thing listed in the claims.
Claim 7 is my favorite: "The computing device of claim 1, wherein, in one heuristic of the one or more heuristics, a contact comprising a simultaneous two-thumb twisting gesture corresponds to a 90.degree. screen rotation command."
- revelation 14y agoSorry, I know, and I invite all the downvotes I can :) Its just the pure stupidity of it all that takes ahold of me when reading this stuff.
- gjm11 14y ago> An infringing device must contain every single thing listed in the claims. An infringing device must contain every single thing listed in at least one of the claims. If you infringe on any single claim, then you infringe. Usually what happens is that claim 1 is really broad, and then there's a sort of tree of claims with claim 1 at the root and more specific claims further down the tree. The early claims may well get invalidated when an infringement case goes to court, but the patent-holder hopes that the later more specific ones will survive and still be broad enough to cover what their rivals are doing. (For the avoidance of doubt, I agree with the general point brian_cloutier is making.)