Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @04:32AM from the smells-like-windows-1.0 dept.

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."

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Re:Not a troll by JDG1980 · 2012-10-31 04:42 · Score: 4, Interesting

A tile is just a chromeless application window. What's novel about it?
Re:Not a troll by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-10-31 05:01 · Score: 4, Interesting

It seems to be the same thing and it's a novel way of doing things.
Exactly, it's not like it is similar to an airplane dashboard, right? And did anyone notice the timing? Coinciding a lawsuit with an OS release, that's not suspicious at all, tsk tsk tsk...

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