Apple Sues the HTC (Android phone maker) with Patents that effects us all
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From: m on 2 Mar 2010 19:54 Fortunately many of us live in countries where this inanity is irrelevant because software cannot be patent; even if these were legitimate patents! "Hector Santos" <sant9442(a)nospam.gmail.com> wrote in message news:ebhZMdmuKHA.5940(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Apple finally did it! They all Client/Server technology, RPC, DCOM > network resource file sharing, offline, offload (caching) technology, > object oriented technology, name it everything under the roof because > Android and Microsoft WP7 is going to be a threat to them. > > Here is a break down of the old patents (and I mean OLD) that Apple is now > enforcing: > > http://i.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-vs-htc-a-patent-breakdown/ > > What interest me is this one: > > Patent #5,481,721: Method for providing automatic and dynamic translation > of object oriented programming language-based message passing into > operation system message passing using proxy objects > > This one's fun -- it's actually an old NeXT patent from 1996. And we're > talking old-school NeXT -- the inventors are listed as Betrand Serlet, > Avie Tevanian, and Lee Boynton. Anyway, this one is large, broad, and > technical: it covers passing objects in an OS between processes by way of > a proxy object. Again, given that this is primarily an OS patent and that > Apple claims all of HTC's Android phones infringe it, it's hard to shake > the impression that this case is anything but a proxy for a larger fight > to come. > > That means our 1996 Wildcat! Interactive Net Server > (http://www.santronics.com) and Microsoft ASP.NET violating technology! > > Wow! > > > -- > HLS
From: Tim Roberts on 3 Mar 2010 01:19
Hector Santos <sant9442(a)nospam.gmail.com> wrote: > >Apple finally did it! They all Client/Server technology, RPC, DCOM >network resource file sharing, offline, offload (caching) technology, >object oriented technology, name it everything under the roof because >Android and Microsoft WP7 is going to be a threat to them. > >Here is a break down of the old patents (and I mean OLD) that Apple is >now enforcing: > http://i.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-vs-htc-a-patent-breakdown/ >....Again, given that this is >primarily an OS patent and that Apple claims all of HTC's Android >phones infringe it, it's hard to shake the impression that this case >is anything but a proxy for a larger fight to come. Not at all. I think you're confused about the purpose of these lawsuits. They don't want to stop all computing. They just want to hinder the sales of phones that compete with the iPhone. -- Tim Roberts, timr(a)probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. |