Slapfight: iPhone Patent Dibs Begin (Pitifully) |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 10:40 am |
| Tags: apple, cellphones, gadgets, iphone, patent, slapfight, smartphones |
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In the wake of consumer action lawsuits, there is another group of citizens looking for a piece of the iPhone: patent trolls. Just take US Patent 6,784,873 by SP Technologies—it's a patent for entering information on a touch screen. If it sounds like an all-encompassing, overly-broad patent, that's probably because it is...an obvious point when you examine the inventors: An Iowa doctor indicted for healthcare fraud and two buddies are, apparently, the fathers of all modern touchscreen technology. They also hold patents on oxygen-wasting machines and automated crap spewers. [trolltacker] [ Full article ] |
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