On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:12:36 +0200 Daniel Mewes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > Typhoon Touch Technologies has initiated legal measures against > different companies with reasonings including - but not limited to - > producing touch screen driven smartphones, as far as I understand it. > Those devices are claimed to infringe two patents. [...] > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5379057.PN.&OS=PN/5379057&RS=PN/5379057 > > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5675362.PN.&OS=PN/5675362&RS=PN/5675362 [...] Not to distract from the potential threat of the situation (though, even that is over-rated, as even the US Supreme Court seems to have woken up to the issues with patents), but, wow, two, count them, *two*, patents that by my count differ in wording by exactly one comma, two hyphens, and replacing "utility" with "executor". I am going to start using these as my example of how the US patent system, and by extension, WIPO, is out of control. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
