It's a stupid game companies play to avoid being sued over patent
infringement. It's about "so you are suing us? Let's see if you are
violating any of our patents!" And they actually want to make it easier
to get a patent while the tech industries want it harder.
I was put in charge of the patent program where I worked in the 1990s
and the tech staff including myself objected to but it was the board of
directors that wanted it. The reason for it as I was told is for the
"sue me, sue you CF" I mentioned above. I don't think patents should
be issued for intellectual concepts.
On 02/04/2012 09:18 AM, Sanjay Mishra wrote:
Excellent effort.
I continue to find it astounding that while certain technologies and
methodologies have been around as common usage since years and decades,
merely the introduction of smaller/ wireless devices / new flavors of
networks, but using the same old approaches, described with the right
level of obfuscation and etc, etc. etc,, becomes the basic for patent
applications and even approvals.
cheers
Sanjay
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Anguel<[email protected]> wrote:
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
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