Comments on: Apple Slapped With Patent Suit Over iPhone’s Browser

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:30:02 +0000

I seem to remember Jobs stealing from IBM – mouse, GUI, etc.

By: Apple Facing Lawsuit Over Browser? « Mobicip Blog

Apple Facing Lawsuit Over Browser? « Mobicip Blog — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:54:05 +0000

[...] TechCrunch reports that a lawsuit has been filed against Apple for allegedly violating a patent related to how internet content is displayed and accessed on a mobile device.This adds a whole new dimension to the phrase “browser wars”. I am by no means a legal expert, but the language in the patent quoted by TechCrunch makes it look like it can be applied against all mobile devices that have browsers in them. navigation options to change between layers of the simplified navigation interface from general to more specific in each deeper layer; receiving a user selection of one of the navigation options; forwarding the selected navigation option across the internet to a server providing the simplified navigation interface; receiving a next deeper navigation layer of the simplified navigation interface corresponding to the selected navigation option; and manipulating a region of the screen for viewing and zooming and/or scrolling of the displayed on-line content. [...]

By: michael--u r wrong

michael--u r wrong — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:05:46 +0000

Michael–very few patent examiners have gone to law school when they become examiners. Most never go to law school, some do while they are examiners. There is no requirement for examiners to be lawyers.

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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:19:36 +0000

[...] a company called EMG Technology filed a patent lawsuit against Apple last week over “the way the iPhone navigates the Internet,” it had the stench of a [...]

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:50:27 +0000

1) The amount of work to get to the end results of a true innovation is never visible

2) Small inventors come up with a disproportionately large number of innovations.

3) Large companies would work most efficiently if they leverage their resources, brand, experience in just scanning their competitors and re-implementing whatever looks most profitable.

4) When someone comes up with a way to protect small inventors from larger companies that copy-paste the results of their hard work and innovation THEN AND ONLY THEN we can abandon the patent system.

By: Apple being sued over iPhone browser | Van Santos

Apple being sued over iPhone browser | Van Santos — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:11:34 +0000

[...] States. Apple is being sued by a company called EMG Technology for the manner in which the iPhone formats and zooms in on content when a user browses a website using the device. [...]

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By: HP Old-Timer

HP Old-Timer — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:16:33 +0000

Funny but true.

By: Diego Rich

Diego Rich — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:31:02 +0000

If you really want to see something worthless, it’s most of these comments.
If you think you can patent an idea – Do it. If you think it’s easy – Try it.
I don’t understand you people. You have nothing to say when an Apple, Nokia, IBM or a RIM go after a small company and drive them out of business. You say nothing when people actually go to jail for coping microsoft software or Sony owned music or MGM’s movies. BUT when one man goes up against a giant and known thief for stealing his property, you cry, wine, bad mouth and call him a troll.
For all you know, the guy did start a company and invested millions. For all you know some Apple engineer use to work for the guy and passed the information to Apple years ago.
On the other hand, when big Steve said, ” Patents – Boy do we have patents”. I bet you said nothing. Apple files in 2008 to patent a solar cell on a phone And you say nothing BUT you call a 1999 iPhone rendering patent useless. I don’t understand you guys unless maybe all these troll comments come from Apple’s PR Dept In that regard, Hey Steve, show us your, data compression, touch screen, visual voicemail and browser touch rendering patents. Hey Steve, are you going to let Rim, LG, zamsung and others clone your patented iPhone like when Microsoft stole your mouse and GUI that you stole from HP and IBM?
It
Jet be those dam n Trolls again.

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Bookmarks for November 24th | The Thoughtful Geek — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:06:28 +0000

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By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:06:13 +0000

I think maybe I ought to patent the wheel. Actually I think someone did it a few years back as a gag.

By: Tippy Hedren

Tippy Hedren — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:55:51 +0000

I take the point of view that when stuff like this happens, Apple’s multi-billion-dollar legal department has failed mightily. They are paid TRUCKLOADS of money to cover all the bases in terms of patents, and foresee crap like this as an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. They are paid truckloads of money to be BRILLIANT at what they do, the best in the world. Evidently Steve Jobs does NOT go into THEIR offices and, in one of his trademark dressings-down, tell them their work is “sh*t” nearly often enough, if ever.

What I cannot for the life of me fathom is a page filled with a hundred comments from people crying the blues for poor Apple (or whomever is the patent lawsuit target-du-jour), the nice little mom-and-pop garage-based company just trying to make great products for us but getting harassed by these nuisance patent suits.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:24:49 +0000

The PTO is a sewer filled with third-rate engineers who couldn’t get a job with a tech company so went to law school then took a job as a patent examiner with the hope of eventually getting a job with a patent troll firm. Obama should pull a Reagan-style PATCO and just fire all the examiners, then invite those who can show they’re qualified by having piles of rejected patents to apply again. Granted, that will dramatically slow down the pace patents are granted but given that the patent system throttles down innovation, rather than encouraging it, that’s probably a good thing. He should also take advantage of the Bush screwup with the judges there and fire the lot of them too: just declare the place hopeless and start over again.

By: Kai

Kai — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:19:37 +0000

Possibly. Didn’t Pocket IE already exist long before the filing date of the patent? Especially since the patent keeps mentioning “zooming and/or scrolling” and Pocket IE has been scrolling for a long time.

By: Apple’s iPhone browser under legal fire | iPhone Footprint

Apple’s iPhone browser under legal fire | iPhone Footprint — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:13:40 +0000

[...] Tyler Division. This lawsuit has been filed at the backdrop of the U.S. Patent number 7,441,196, titled “Apparatus and method of manipulating a region on a wireless device screen for viewing, zooming [...]

By: Patent-Klage gegen Apples MobileSafari

Patent-Klage gegen Apples MobileSafari — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:45:35 +0000

[...] hat sich bislang noch nicht zu den Vorwürfen geäußert. Mit Dank an Michael. Via Süddeutsche und TechCrunch. var disqus_url = [...]

By: David Z

David Z — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:19:57 +0000

And your opinion as to the probable outcome is based on what?

By: kdr

kdr — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:47:33 +0000

Am I off-base, or does this patent describe something that was done by WebTV already with tabbed browsing.

This looks like a miniature of the WebTV interface.

Calling Microsoft’s Intellectual Property department!

By: Apple User

Apple User — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:31:17 +0000

He is the God

By: bob

bob — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:56:42 +0000

true, the spelling was the same, but cisco’s product was actually the IP phone, smooshed into Iphone. iPhone and Iphone are different things pronounced differently.

By: Michael Long

Michael Long — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:36:32 +0000

“The less companies we have to get through to have mobile wireless devices the better.”

Are you insane? Carried to it’s illogical conclusion, “fewer is better” means that there should be only one phone and provider. ‘Course now you’re stuck with whatever device they think you should have, and whatever “service” they feel like providing. Thanks a lot.

Apple should in fact be congratulated for shaking up the market and getting companies to focus on their designs and user interfaces. Think we’d have Instincts and Bolds and even G1s today if the iPhone hadn’t hit the market like a sledgehammer?

By: Will G.L.

Will G.L. — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:56:57 +0000

I hope this ruins the Iphone and apple decides to back out of the mobile wireless division. Having to deal with the likes of AT&T, Verizon and Tmobile are bad enough as it is, we dont need apple throwing in their $.02 on how data should be monitored/encrypted. The less companies we have to get through to have mobile wireless devices the better.

By: PB

PB — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:24:24 +0000

No, he is saying that if you can’t create an invention within 5 years, then your patent expires. You are therefore motivated to either produce it yourself or self the idea to someone who can produce it.

Companies that ignore you are your product don’t get to use your patent.

You are clearly a bigger idiot for calling him out due to your reading comprehension problems.

By: Yasser

Yasser — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:19:20 +0000

Creative had a case on that, the above patent on the other hand is extremely general and asinine.

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By: blah

blah — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:18:28 +0000

Won’t hold up in court. Claim 1 implies a secondary site to broker or transcode the web pages into something else (presumably tiles, as the rest of the claim deals with brining these in focus, etc).

Unless safari delegates this to another server which then feeds the pages by the tile to the iphone, this won’t hold up in court.

Of course, not sure what clams 2-5 say, they are not all posted here, but a good reading of claim 1 and my understanding that safari on the iphone behaves the same as on the mac, then this lawsuit is wishful thinking.