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I think it goes without saying that this whole patent “he said, she said” legal business has gotten a bit out of hand lately. Apparently, the US District for the District of Delaware agrees with the sentiment, and have ordered HTC and Apple to meet and talk about a potential settlement. It’s not clear if the CEO’s of said companies will make an appearance, with the court order only mentioning lawyers and “decision makers” from the appropriate parties. The meetings will be moderated by Magistrate Judge Sherry R. Fallon, and are scheduled to take place on August 28th. Something tells me this isn’t the last we’ve heard from Apple and their legal team.
[FossPatents | TheVerge]
Meeting is Aug 28. So what no EVO LTE until then?
no it will be in stores before then
Apple needs to calm down. Are they getting scared of the up n coming phone companies. If they are; they should be.
F Apple. And F Patents too.
patents are one of the best things this world has, it protects inventions to the original owner.
the US patent SYSTEM is what needs to be scrapped. if i invent perpetual motion tomorrow you better bet your ass i’m going to patent it. what i SHOULDN’T be able to do is patent something as lamen as clicking a link in a message and choosing what opens it
youd probably invent perpetual motion tomorrow, apply for the patent and be sued because some patent squater already patented the IDEA.
Well, I disagree with you on patents in general but I won’t debate that here. What I will say is that “software patents” have no place in this world. At all. Period.
As long as I get me EVO next week, I’ll be fine. :)
What the court SHOULD DO IS TELL APPLE TO STOP FUCKING SUING HTC and others AND COMPROMISE. THE HELL WITH APPLE AND IT’S GREEDY ASS LAWYERS
Why August? Why not know? Have no information regarding comments or objections from HTC. Are Apple’s statements correct?
The “patent” is so vague that almost every electronic device/vendor should be blocked. And that can’t be right.
Patent Number 5946647
“A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on
structures identified in computer data. The system provides an analyzer
server, an application program interface, a user interface and an action
processor. The analyzer server receives from an application running
concurrently data having recognizable structures, uses a pattern
analysis unit, such as a parser or fast string search function, to
detect structures in the data, and links relevant actions to the
detected structures. The application program interface communicates with
the application running concurrently, and transmits relevant
information to the user interface. Thus, the user interface can present
and enable selection of the detected structures, and upon selection of a
detected structure, present the linked candidate actions. Upon
selection of an action, the action processor performs the action on the
detected structure.”