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Apple's patent attackApple's patent attackPosted Mar 3, 2010 2:47 UTC (Wed) by dps (subscriber, #5725)Parent article: Apple's patent attack
This attack is a little scary... rather a lot of it sounds like completely obvious things that have been standard for a long time. In particular if it #7,362,331 holds then all developers of games and games consoles are likely to be next.
Even if a games developer did successfully contest the patent they would lose $$$$ while their product was in legal limbo.
At least in theory the second set of patents should be easy to invalidate.
#5,946,647 is just too broad... techniques like least squared error regression have been known for several hundred years. More recent development include robust regression. Westinghouse used pattern recognition to optimise the conversion of uranium hexflaloride (gas) into uranium fuel pellets prior to 1992. Note that Apple has nothing to do with any of this work.
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Apple's patent attack Posted Mar 6, 2010 16:25 UTC (Sat) by bcopeland (subscriber, #51750) [Link] #7,469,381: List scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display (2007). This one is complex, but seems to cover the practice of "bouncing" the display when scrolled past the end of a document or list.Bouncing smooth scrolling was also really popular in Ansi viewers of the BBS days (I even wrote one.). Of course, touch screens weren't very common back then, but that seems to be the logical obvious extension.
Apple's patent attack Posted Mar 6, 2010 19:14 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Personally it's always made me feel seasick. A patent on making your users
feel ill! (I have always thought that it would be Microsoft, or IBM's mainframe division, who managed that one.)
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