Re: Apple Patent
How is this much different from patenting genes or gene sequences? -- Regards - Grant Doug Fuerst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 29/12/2007 00:26 Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Apple Patent Maybe Apple will patent air next. They can join Microsoft in the application. This is insane. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205203690cid=nl_IWK_daily Doug Doug Fuerst Consultant BK Associates Brooklyn, NY (718) 921-2620 (Office) (718) 921-0952 (Fax) (917) 572-7364 (Cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html - DTCC DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately and delete the email and any attachments from your system. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Apple Patent
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/28/2007 at 07:26 PM, Doug Fuerst [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Maybe Apple will patent air next. They can join Microsoft in the application. This is insane. It's certainly abusive if apple means to enforce the patent, but if it's just a defensive patent then it's a reasonable response to a broken system. The real problem is that the USPTO is not checking for prior art or for things that are obvious to a practitioner. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Apple Patent
Maybe Apple will patent air next. They can join Microsoft in the application. This is insane. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205203690cid=nl_IWK_daily Doug Doug Fuerst Consultant BK Associates Brooklyn, NY (718) 921-2620 (Office) (718) 921-0952 (Fax) (917) 572-7364 (Cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Apple Patent
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:26:22 -0500, Doug Fuerst wrote: Maybe Apple will patent air next. They can join Microsoft in the application. This is insane. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205203690cid=nl_IWK_daily Isn't this strangely reminiscent of IBM's patent 6,329,919, which IBM under public pressure and to its credit withdrew? (How does one withdraw a patent? Bequeath it to the public domain somehow?) And I wonder why IBM hasn't defended its patent(s) on the behavior of the TAB key on graphic terminals, which would seem to be infringed by numerous web page and personal computer data entry forms? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
