Janne Aaltonen's Patents and Appications: http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/index.html?id=2228089&table=patents http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/index.html

Janne Aaltonen's Patents and Appications: http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/index.html?id=2228089&table=patents http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/index.html?id=2228089&ta... The USPTO doesn't have any assignment data for this particular publication yet, but this assignment looks pretty similar (same title): http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/patentassignment.html?id=4677999 http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/patentassignment.html?id... Application No. 12/664,079, which that assignment is based upon, and which Apple, Inc. also owns ("13/753,189 filed on 01-29-2013 which is Pending claims the benefit of 12/664,079"), has been pending in the USPTO's system since December, 2009. A final rejection was issued September 7, 2012, after which a Request for Continued Examination (RCE) was filed, and another non-final rejection was issued May 31, 2013. Pretty typical path for the USPTO. I filed my mobile payments patent around the same time; it was finally granted in March. Apple e-mailed me saying that they wanted to buy it in late April. When they called to follow up they told me they'd contacted me in error. Oops. I guess they're placing their bets on this extremely vague application which should have zero chance of being granted instead?