Quote:
Originally Posted by jbjb
Patents are not just for devices - you can patent processes, techniques etc. For example, there are cases of things like business methods and software algorithms being patented. Many of these patentable things could reasonably be described as ideas.
|
...And that's why, kids, the US patent system is broken.
Penforhire - And that's also why you get some ugly "art" of devices in patent claims...
Anyway, when a company with a in-production device gets a claim slapped on them by a company without, especially when the timescale dosn't add up for the Nook not to have been in late development before they were shown the Alex... (Not to mention cutting off talks is the *right* response when you realise there's potential cross contamination)...
(And there needs to be a far stronger punishment for patent trolling, honestly)