On 08/28/2012 07:44 PM, anatoly wrote:
No offence but you guys should better read what this is all about plus some
copyright basics.
One of the patents infringed in this case is rubber-banding.
It's a feature so the software implementation is irrelevant.
Patents, trademarks and copyrights is all about intellectual property that
should be respected as any other private property.
No offence either anatoly, but I used to copyright songs back in the day
when you went to the local post office and they dug out a form to fill
out which you mailed in with a copy of your song and a check for $6 to
the Library of Congress. A few weeks later you would receive that form
back with a seal and stamp from them indicating when it was registered.
Back then you also needed to register it again when the song was
published. After a while the Library of Congress got so flooded with
these that the laws were changed.
I also worked at a little company you may not have heard of called Maxis
which published some games you may not have heard that most started with
"Sim". We had an in house attorney who I worked with and back then the
copyright requirements for software were something like the first 50
pages of code. I considered that worthless because it wouldn't work for
object oriented code. That requirement got changed too.
While I worked there I was also put in charge of a patent program which
the board of directors wanted but no one else including myself did. We
knew even then stuff was getting patented that shouldn't have been. I
worked with a tech patent attorney on that project.
So I "might" know a little something about patents and copyrights. ;-)
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