6 Jul
2010
6 Jul
'10
1:33 p.m.
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Oh and make sure you don't violate any Apple
patents... other than my
being listed in the patent (I'm still trying to figure out why), the
patent below is the most ridiculous piece of crap I've seen since IBM
patented object oriented programming....
http://www.patents.com/Method-apparatus-managing-windows-7739604.html
[ ... abstract elided ... ]
please do not post patent abstracts to this or any other mailing list.
US law poses no requirement on an "inventor" to perform a patent
search, and a provable lack of awareness of existing patents does have
a small but definite impact on the legal result of an infringement. by
posting to the mailing list, you make provable lack of awareness much
harder to prove. posting a link to the patent doesn't expose us to
this issue, and leaves individuals free to decide whether to follow
the link or not.
--p