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Apple Patents Using Apps During Calls
bizwriter writes "Apple has had quite a week in patents for the iPhone, and it's only Tuesday. First was the victory at the International Trade Commission over HTC. And now there's a shiny new patent on switching to an app during a live phone call (#8,082,523). There may be non-infringing ways of doing something similar, but they probably will be clumsy in comparison."
If you want to do business with me, come to Canada. I'm not setting foot in the legal nightmare that is the US with my business.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Taking a shit while using a phone? I wanna do that. You know, maybe if we just spread a little butter on these people, they will eat each other and their children. Sounds good to me.
For the love of god, who is doing prior art searches? Drunken tweeners who don't know how to use Google?!?
I've been on slashdot so long I'm starting to get out of touch with the cool stuff if it ain't on slashdot.
See? Ideas are a dime a dozen! Wish I had the wherewithal to patent this... that's why I'm a poor, starving AC.
I used to be a poor, starving AC like yourself. Then, I got a Slashdot account for free! Now I'm a poor, starving Slashdot account holder!
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Apple patent filing date: Jan 2008
First Android ships with said feature implemented: Oct 2008
Because death would be too good for them. *
(* still hyperbole)
That's far older than the other obvious prior art: BlackBerry.
You misspelled Palm.
And exactly when does Apple receive the moniker: "Lord of all evil"?
And exactly when will the average slashdot reader learn the real meaning of the word "evil"?
Apple invented a document stamping machine a while back which can take a stack of patent request forms and stamp "approved" on them.
I doubt it. The PTO itself has prior art on that.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Apple seems destined to become the number mega patent troll as their range of fad products die off.
Apple - beleaguered company with fad products dying off since 1976. Somehow managing to make it from a garage to the biggest market cap in the world in the process.