Businesses figured out years ago they could game the Patent Office due
to its technical ignorance. This patent seems to be for a "concept" not
truly a machine or device that in total might be unique. Patents
shouldn't be granted for such obvious things. If you put a bunch of
programmers in separate rooms and gave them a problem to solve most
would probably come up with the same solution given the way that
computers work. None of that should be patentable but we know sleazy
companies have done exactly that because they knew they could get away
with it due to the Office's ignorance.
I was put in charge of administering a patent program where I worked in
the 90s. No one but the board of directors wanted it including the
founders. It was considered "insurance" against other patent suits.
IOW, this whole mess is so corporations can play war games with each
other, the "sue me sue you blues." And asking programmers to keep a
journal when they seldom put comments in their code was a bit silly.
On 05/29/2011 06:48 AM, jacek wrote:
The real culprit is the Patent Office...
The P.O. makes all this nonsense possible
On May 27, 7:08 pm, Nathan<[email protected]> wrote:
On May 26, 11:01 pm, Al Sutton<[email protected]> wrote:
I guess if you really were worried about it, just use the Market features to
make your app unavailable in the US could be an easy solution.
Yes, I'd only offend 78% of my paying customers that way. ;(
In particular, the in-app purchases I want to enable next week are all
for the US Market. I don't plan to stop just because I will get a
letter from LodeSys eventually. I'll follow Al's lead and ask for
proof of infringement before I cough up any dough.
I believe I have sold shareware prior to 2005. It may have even had a
link to where you could purchase a code activate it. Any prior art can
invalidate a patent, whether I did it or not.
If you want to avoid getting any legal notices, the best way is
actually to just stay out of business altogether. I got a threatening
letter from Warner Bros a few years back over a rather small time
website.
Nathan
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