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More Patent Worries for Mobile Phones

Posted by timothy on from the shouldn't-that-be-uspto.com? dept.

loekf writes "After the story about NTP suing Research In Motion over alleged patent infringement (do your homework, U.S. Patent Office!), there's another story on The Inquirer about a U.S. firm, Antor Media, suing a lot of companies over a 'Method and apparatus for transmitting information recorded on information storage means from a central server to subscribers via a high data rate digital telecommunications network,' see: U.S. Patent 5,734,961. When does the hurting stop!?"

5 of 128 comments (clear)

  1. When does it stop? by ScrewMaster · · Score: 4, Funny

    When the pace of technological advancement reaches zero.

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    The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
  2. Fight insanity with insanity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just make sure your network has a "medium" data rate, or "very high" data rate, but not a plain "high" data rate.

    1. Re:Fight insanity with insanity by MoogMan · · Score: 2, Funny

      Regular, Medium, Super size?

  3. Re:Vague. by ArielMT · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like a webserver to me.

    Shush! Don't give them any ideas! They'll just sue companies making Web servers like IIS by Micros--

    Hmm, this has possibilities. *Muwahahahaha*

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    It must be Windows. It needs half a gig of RAM and a hardware-accelerated graphics card just to run Solitaire.
  4. This reminds me of a little story by iminplaya · · Score: 5, Funny

    A guy walks up to his friend and sees him hitting himself on the head with a hammer. "Why are you doing that!?", he asks. "Because it feels so good when I stop.", was the reply.

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    What?