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Microsoft sues Barnes and Noble over AndroidMicrosoft sues Barnes and Noble over AndroidPosted Mar 22, 2011 3:47 UTC (Tue) by AndreE (subscriber, #60148)Parent article: Microsoft sues Barnes and Noble over Android
Wait so you can now obtain a patent on "natural " ways of interacting? What a complete joke. If it is so natural how exactly is it inventive or novel? This system is completely broken
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On the stupidity of patents on "natural ways" of doing things Posted Mar 22, 2011 9:17 UTC (Tue) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]
The "best" patents are those that describe natural things, because then everybody will have to walk that path and tumble down the rabbit hole.
But I agree with you, if it's natural, then it requires no engineering and not much thinking, so the patent protects a "good idea that everybody has" rather than a complex design that took years and money to come up with, thus impeding further invention.
Microsoft sues Barnes and Noble over Android Posted Mar 22, 2011 15:00 UTC (Tue) by zotz (guest, #26117) [Link]
+1
my initial thought too.
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