I already commented on this on techreplublic, their article lead is inherently wrong.
Apple hasn't "won" anything here. The US patent office a long time ago gave up trying to judge the validity of patents. They will grant anything written in the proper form and let the courts sort it out. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Brian Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/23/2011 07:01 AM, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: >> >> Fair enough, no system is perfect. >> >> But our system in the US as is encourages lawyers with nothing better >> to do to file frivolous law suits on the random chance they might get >> lucky or get a settlement out of court., > > And what about the news yesterday that Apple was granted a patent for touch > screens on mobile device? Talk about prior art! Like the Palm for > instance. Sure it had a stylus but your finger would be too big to work > with the screen though a few times when I misplaced the stylus my small > finger nail worked just fine. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en. > > -- It's always darkest just before you are eaten by a grue. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en.
