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Originally Posted by SirBC
From Engadget:
Do you think Jobs is gunning for Calibre and its cover browser? |
He can't. Calibre's cover browser substantially, verifiably predates it--patents can't be used to sue pre-existing inventions. (In fact, a good patent review process might've gotten the patent thrown out as being too similar to existing technology. One of the biggest problems with patents today is that there aren't resources to allow substantial review of each new patent attempt--they're only reviewed when someone tries to sue the owner, or the owner tries to sue someone else.)
If Calibre were an unknown, obscure program, there might be some claim of independent invention, but Apple can hardly claim that it created its entire ebook library system without awareness of the existence of Calibre.