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Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent
An anonymous reader writes with news of a company suing Microsoft for infringing upon a patent for tiles with live content. From the article: "SurfCast, in a complaint filed yesterday in a U.S. District Court in Maine, said Microsoft infringes one of its four patents — No. 6,724,403 — by 'making, using, selling, and offering to sell devices and software products' covered by SurfCast's patent. That includes mobile devices using the Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 operating systems as well as PCs using Windows 8/RT."
Scheudenfreude is not an admirable trait... hopefully you're not passing that on to children.
Oh, but wouldn't it be just great if he did?
Mothafucka's patented the SQUARE
Shit. I'm about to get Platonic on that one, and patent me a CUBE.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Too late. I already patented the hypercube.
All dots, lines, squares, and cubes are lower dimensional derivatives of my hypercube design and thus require a license from me.
Also, someone else patented the time cube.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
And the companion cube probably has trademarks to deal with.
But does it have rounded corners?
That's innovation.
Required reading for internet skeptics
That certainly adds an extra dimension to this case.