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Reexamination Request Filed Against Another Apple Patent
An anonymous reader writes "After the rubber-banding, 'Steve Jobs' heuristics and pinch-to-zoom patents, another Apple patent in use against Samsung comes under pressure. An anonymous filer, most likely Samsung, has filed a reexamination request against Apple's RE41,922 patent on a 'method and apparatus for providing translucent images on a computer display.' It's not among the patents a California jury evaluated this summer, but one of four patents an ITC judge preliminarily found Samsung to infringe. The reexamination request features five new pieces of prior art (three U.S. patents from the early 1990s and two Japanese patents), all of which dealt with translucent images. The patent office will decide next year whether to grant or deny the request for reexamination. Expect more such petitions targeting Apple patents."
Who says its Samsung?
Microsoft may be just as likely the source of this appeal, since they have used translucent images since Vista.
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That is the point. with so many absurd patents out there that slashdot and the tech community have been calling for a while now all it took was for a Non troll(apple produces products) to start shooting their patent missiles only to realize that they are not only firing duds but ones that might explode on lift off doing more damage to yourself than the enemy.
For a while patents were defensive no one wanted to be stupid enough to use them in mass attacks.
Of course stupidity rises to the top and so all it takes is one dumb CEO and an itchy trigger finger.
It happened to be Apple. I love my mac hardware but damn the company deserves this.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.