I can understand his reluctance to face a lawsuit, but I cannot believe that patent could stand a court challenge. The feature is too obvious: the only way they could have met the requirement for non- obviousness would be if they had a particular WAY to display it, and that was was novel and non-obvious. But then all the developer you mentioned has to do is show that his way is different enough.
On Jul 12, 12:29 pm, "Gene R." <[email protected]> wrote: > There have been instances of the rights holder threatening the > developer directly (ie. bypassing Google entirely). > > About 3-4 months ago, some patent IP company notified one of the > developers of a caller ID app that they had a patent on displaying > location information of the caller id. The developer was forced to > pull his app or face a lawsuit. > > While this is an extreme case, as Mark suggested earlier, it is more > than likely up to the rights holder to assert their rights. Those > developers that knowingly infringe are playing a game of russian > roulette; however, I have noticed most of the infringing apps appear > to be out of China or some other asian country... that alone may > dissuade the rights holder from pursing it. > > Gene > > On Jul 10, 6:23 am, michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi again, > > > > Doing so may well violate their DMCA safe harbor provisions and open > > > them up to big-ticket lawsuits. I suspect that they are best served by > > > following the DMCA rules, which requires takedown notices by the > > > rights holders (e.g., Disney). > > > I didn't think of that but good point. > > > I agree that probably the best way to act against infringement > > problems is to notify copyright holders. Speaking for myself, the > > problem is not big enough for me to go through all that trouble. I > > guess it is just a downside of a free market that we will have to live > > with. > > > Cheers, > > Michael. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
