20 years ago? I need to get on writing some really vague patents about robots and computerized cars and other future stuff. If I write enough, some of them have to come true.
My thoughts exactly. I'm putting in my patents NOW for warp drives, space fold drives, dog houses that cross dimensions to visit their owners on another planet, etc. and of course all the unwritten but assumed math equations that will have to be written (documented purely by a vague diagram 'gui' like art that will cover anything and everything anyone can possibly think of in terms of actual future specifics) and then sue the living pants off anyone that even
tries use that area of physics without my $1 Billion licensing fee (per applicant).
Don't even THINK about patenting a time machine. I've already gone back in time and I'm suing Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale for using my idea of a time machine in a car that I patented during the ancient Egyptian years. The patent can clearly be seen on the wall of the tomb in Abydos. Don't even get me started about Stargate and them using my tomb in Abydos for their movie. They will all owe me $$$ back-dated 10,000 years + compound interest!
Seriously, we need a law against ALL FORMS OF SOFTWARE PATENTS. Software should fall under copyright, not patents. Most of the software patents I've seen are just vague diagrams of GUIs that are then supposed to cover any and all code and any way that code could be written to accomplish those generic 'goals' that don't include ANY programming knowledge.
The very idea that a 'link' inside an application could be patented is so freaking
ridiculous that I would want to see that taken to the Supreme Court. All one would have to do is find something a year older that has a link inside the program to the developer's business or similar and there you go, the basis for having a "pay to license" button in a program. Can you even imagine if someone patented the idea of typing letters on a computer? You could sue every word processor maker on the face of the Earth for the past 30 years.... WTF does THAT have to do with making a GOOD word processor? It stifles...no KILLS all innovation because WTF is the point of making something if someone is just going to sue the living crap out of you every time you release something?
You haven't read the terms of licensing they are proposing. They would get 0.575% of the sales resulting in the use of the Upgrade button. So sales of the paid app.
If Apple held the patent, they would want 30%.
I've just submitted a patent for a "Replace" button. It's similar to an 'upgrade' button, but it covers all buttons that delete the trial program and 'replace' it with a full version. That's not an upgrade. It's a switch.
While I'm at it, I'm submitting patent buttons for 'order coffee' , 'order pizza', 'dispense change', 'call home', 'navigate home' and 'wash car' (all in terms of remote internet use over smart phone). Any app that uses something like that will have to pay me 5 cents a button click.
After all, that took some serious brain power to come up with that stuff. NO ONE could POSSIBLY come up with something like that already or in the future. It deserves a patent. Given most patent clerks have the brains of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, they should be approved regardless of their total illegitimacy.
