Quote:
Originally Posted by Elfwreck
He can't. Calibre's cover browser substantially, verifiably predates it--patents can't be used to sue pre-existing inventions.
|
Have you compared the date of filing of the patent to Calibre's date? What do you know about their date of invention?
Quote:
|
(In fact, a good patent review process might've gotten the patent thrown out as being too similar to existing technology.
|
The Apple design patent appears to be extremely narrow in scope (as in it would be very hard for the Calibre cover flow to infringe it). I saw a Google design patent that issued on the Google search interface a year ago, and the day it issued, Google's own search interface wouldn't have infringed their own patent. Apple basically just wants to prevent exact copies of its iPhone and similar devices and to use these patents to threaten copycats.