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Apple's New Patent Weapon — Location Services
DaveyJJ writes "Once again, it seems Apple is about to take intellectual property claims to a new level. Apple has been reissued a patent they acquired from Xerox that pretty much wraps up what we know as 'location services' as their own. In the overview, the patent says the system involved will display information specific to the location the device is in. The language used in the patent is broad and powerful. I guess now we wait and see whom Apple will use this against?"
Alas, no longer can roadside maps or sextants be used.
This is why we can't have nice things.
The patent office and laws are at best dysfunctional.
Hand in your eyeballs - they can be used to acquire information specific to the location the eyeballs are in.
You wouldn't steal a car -- violating someone else's laughable intellectual property is theft!
Man, that company has really went downhill.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
>> Damn. I guess I'll go and paint all my car windows black.
Is your name Spike?
"Cats like plain crisps"
When has Apple attempted to stop someone from using something covered under one of their patents without the other party first bringing litigation against Apple? I'm not saying that there's no chance it happened, I just do not recall a case in which Apple has attacked another company unprovoked.
Those who know, do not speak. Those who speak, do not know. ~Lao Tzu