Another patent battle for Android

Posted Nov 15, 2013 8:57 UTC (Fri) by cas (guest, #52554)
Parent article: Another patent battle for Android

the patent claims against google seem to boil down to "using databases as they are designed to be used".

databases are designed to store data and to be searched and used to lookup that data - that's their entire purpose. it's not novel or an invention just because you're searching for a particular field or set of fields in particular tables or databases. the content being searched - i.e. the "searcher's profile" - does not change the nature of the database operations being performed.

Another patent battle for Android

Posted Nov 18, 2013 14:49 UTC (Mon) by alan (subscriber, #4018) [Link]

See how that's obvious to you as a technologist? Not so obvious to Judges and Lawyers.