Ummmm, re " ... touch two points to display a route ...", do excuse me while I apply re an invention that's twice as good: Like touch only ONE point for directions!
>From some experience some years back, I can say that the receipt of a Cease and Desist Letter can have a deeply chilling effect without the support of a group like this. AS On 12/21/13, Brent Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Click on two points to display a route, touch two points to display a route > - this is natural progression from mouse based hardware to touch screen > mode. There should not be any patent there, it is just a generic change in > pointing device. > > Numerous web apps (& mapping portals) dim the background for popups & other > "foreground" info - hopefully nothing new or patentable there. > > My concern is not this has been applied for, but that someone presumeably > believes such minor adaptations are patentable under US law. > > Hopefully not - coming from a country which recently legislated software as > not patentable. > > > > Shock, horror - could OSGEO join with ESRI to contest this? A comparable > case a few years ago in New Zealand created a very unusual set of bedfellows > - who successfully contested the patent, at a cost substantially cheaper > than pursuing individual cases against it. See: > http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=3576578 > > Cheers, > > Brent Wood _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
