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Microsoft Co-Founder's Firm Sues Apple and Others in Patent Dispute

"A browser for navigating a body of information"


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I know you're supposed to patent ideas but trolololololol lolololol
 
- United States Patent No. 6,263,507 issued for an invention entitled "Browser for Use in Navigating a Body of Information, With Particular Application to Browsing Information Represented By Audiovisual Data."
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You'd think Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreesen and/or the folks at UIUC would have something to say about that.

- United States Patent No. 6,034,652 issued for an invention entitled "Attention Manager for Occupying the Peripheral Attention of a Person in the Vicinity of a Display Device."
- United States Patent No. 6,788,314 issued for an invention entitled "Attention Manager for Occupying the Peripheral Attention of a Person in the Vicinity of a Display Device."
- United States Patent No. 6,757,682 issued for an invention entitled "Alerting Users to Items of Current Interest."
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Oh, lordy - he actually had the chutzpah to patent Clippy!!
 
markob said:
Sooner or later either more companies will move to EU, where no such dumb software patent system exists or US will finally change their pattent office.
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If they conduct business in the US, they're still answerable to US law regardless of where the business is located.
 
I guess self-respect doesn't exist anymore. How can a man associated with Microsoft sue anyone over patent infringement? Wow!
 
If I ever come across a time machine, the first thing i'm going to do is go back to 1971 and start patenting things like "Search box that queries entered text against a database." and all sorts of things like that. When I return to the present, i'll be so loaded, I won't know what to do with myself.
 
I am going to suit some one or some thing, I am just to lazzy to figure out what to suit but I know I can...

I can suite the government because the street is dirty and when I come to my place my carpet get dirty by my dirty shoes and that causes me so much frustration and psicological distres... Zzzzzz...
 
He is basically a failure at life after microsoft. The Blazers and Seahawks are a mess and his other startups for the most part have failed e.g. flipstart
 
He's gotta have some money left for all the lawyer fees. He's taking on 10 of the largest companies in the world, good luck with that.
 
Simply said. You can't sue over or even patent an idea. There are plenty of ways to accomplish the same thing. Unless they ripped off the code. You're SOL. Wait who rips off code. M$. Windows.
 
I'm pretty sure that the suits have no merit--BUT YOU CAN"T TELL ON THE BASIS OF TITLES. The whole deal about patents is that they're about new METHODS of doing things. Judging on the basis of titles ignores what patents are all about.
 
roland.g said:
Simply said. You can't sue over or even patent an idea.
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Simply said, you can't patent an idea--but you can patent a method to accomplish an idea.

There's a difference between the two. People should realize that.
 
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