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6,175,789 (Vehicle computer system with open platform)6,175,789 (Vehicle computer system with open platform)Posted Feb 26, 2009 6:51 UTC (Thu) by ketilmalde (guest, #18719)Parent article: Microsoft sues TomTom
You just gotta love this - Microsoft patented openness. I guess that since they invented it, it's only right that they are protected from the ruthless copycats who would be open without paying for it.
-k
PS: I actually tried to read the patent text, but it's just a long ream of numbered points with trivial contents, like: Claim 1: a box, claim 2: a computer inside the box, 3: a computer inside a rather small box, 4: a computer inside a small box that can play music... Makes you wonder where technology would be today without the brilliant innovation from Redmond. Or not.
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6,175,789 (Vehicle computer system with open platform) Posted Feb 26, 2009 11:22 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
The reason patents are constructed like this is so that any individual claim that is invalidated does not cause all claims to fail - however if you target the 'root' claims then you could get a 'cascade invalidate' of many dependent claims.
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