Hello, I noticed some recent US & world patent applications from Apple, e.g.:
US 2010/0233961 A1: ACCESSORY AND MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE COMMUNICATION USING AN APPLICATION PROTOCOL http://www.google.com/patents/US20100233961 US 20100235454 A1: APPLICATION COMMUNICATION WITH EXTERNAL ACCESSORIES http://www.google.com/patents/US20100235454 WO 002010107660 A1: ACCESSORY AND MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE COMMUNICATION USING AN APPLICATION COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL http://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNet/depatisnet?window=1&space=menu&content=treffer&action=bibdat&docid=WO002010107660A1 I am not a patent attorney but I suspect that if these patent applications become patents they could have a large impact on basic device to device communication used by any smartphone. IMHO they cover very obvious things but could stop for example Android Open Accessory development (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/adk.html). My intention is to bring these patent applications to the attention of Google's patent attorneys. I know that preventing a patent from being issued is much easier than trying to stop it later. By posting this into this forum I hope that this can be forwarded to Google's experts. Best regards, Anguel -- 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.
