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Patents may not work either
The USPTO is notorious for issuing non-enforceable patents. The notion of swinging side to side versus the conventional back and forth on a rope swing was patented as a joke a couple of years ago. Write it up correctly and you can patent the wheel.

No meaningful review exists until it gets to court. Some survive and some don't. Apple was never able to assert even copyright on its interfaces because of all the prior art and obvious expressions. Lotus won some early cases on look and feel patents, but they were reversed subsequently. Apple is wasting their attorney's fees with this nonsense.
Posted by: amicus_curious   Posted on: 05/12/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Crazy or what?  Fred Fredrickson | 05/11/04
Technically, no  Rick_K | 05/11/04
No? Technically not crazy?  Fred Fredrickson | 05/12/04
US Patent perhaps lasts 17 years  FirstNLastN | 05/12/04
That does not qualify for patent either  FirstNLastN | 05/12/04
enforceability?  ryusen | 05/12/04
Patents may not work either  amicus_curious | 05/12/04
Exactly  FirstNLastN | 05/12/04
I needed a laugh........  middle of nowhere | 05/11/04
Excuse me...  BitTwiddler | 05/12/04
He was referring to Realplayer, not iTunes  tic swayback | 05/12/04
Apple dead in other countries  FirstNLastN | 05/12/04
I don't think they wanted overseas protection  bidemytime | 05/12/04
This give this a patent but not other things  voska | 05/12/04
Perpetual Motion Machine...  Martin Marvinski | 05/12/04
"Apple dead "....  BitTwiddler | 05/12/04
Premature Obit  MarcB_z | 05/12/04
Patent Away!  cuervo-gold | 05/12/04
Apples Patents  joedokes | 05/12/04
Curious  Spoon Jabber | 05/12/04
No matter the love of Apple  FilledOut | 05/12/04
MS patented and Apple TREE, Apple patents a UI  mlindl | 05/13/04

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