Isn't this somewhat in the same ball park (in terms of silliness) as the
EarthComber patent?
http://www.google.com/patents?id=fo56AAAAEBAJ&dq=7,071,842
Which they sued all and sundry recently to no avail thus far
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/earthcomber-cries-patent-infringement-against-loopt/
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From: Ian White <[email protected]>
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Sent: Monday, March 9, 2009 4:25:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Apple patents "dynamic presention oflocation-specific
information "
Wonder if apple elected the peer to patent program for this. I suspect
NO F*ING WAY
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Behalf Of Peter Batty
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:08 PM
To: Mike Liebhold
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Apple patents "dynamic presention
oflocation-specific information "
There should be plenty of prior
art on this - we did multiple applications that fit this description at
Ubisense well before 2007 (2003 onwards). I'll send it on to the Ubisense guys
as they will no doubt have a strong interest in challenging this.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Mike Liebhold <[email protected]> wrote:
Hmmm - this demands closer inspection.
"United States Patent Application 20090063293, entitled Dynamic
Presentation of Location-Specific Information, seeks to patent "improved
approaches to allow a portable electronic device to dynamically present
location-specific information while the portable electronic device is at a
predetermined location... In one embodiment, the portable electronic device has
a display that can display the location-specific information and has wireless
capabilities for use in receiving the location-specific information from the
server. The location-specific information can, for example, augment other
information that is to be presented on the display. In one embodiment, the
location-specific
information can be information pertaining to a media item being played in an
establishment, such as a store, where the portable electronic device is
located."
[ full patent text here: http://bit.ly/wYHme ]
comments?
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