And that's where the lawyers would need to get involved: who knew what and when did they know it.
I'm glad I'm not a lawyer -- the pressure and stress of such cases (defending or prosecuting patents among other things) would certainly cause more ulcers than the increase in income would make worthwhile.
It does seem that the patent office has certainly gotten so far behind the times that it needs a complete overhaul and hiring of people who have real world experience and can think more clearly about whether something like this Microsoft patent is covering something obvious that anybody in the field would be able to figure out.
David H. Bailey
Darcy James Argue wrote:
The article stated that Palm One and Symbian use a similar system in their mobile OSes, and this patent would force them to discontinue this practice. So the problem *isn't* press coverage, it's that the US patent office is aiding and abetting Microsoft's monopolistic practices.
- Darcy
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On 08 Jun 2004, at 12:51 AM, Michael Good wrote:
The problem is more in the press coverage, I think. This is not a double-clicking patent; it is a patent on a specific way to combine click, press, and double-click on cell-phone like devices in order to launch applications. I've not aware of any prior art which meets the patent claims, though I'm not an expert on the latest cell phone and PDA user interfaces.
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