Is the world going MAD!!!

[Hawk]

If I told you guys that a company submitted a patent application in 2010 in the USA that legally gives that company the rights to any voice communications device and that patent was accepted by the US Patent offices, would you believe me? I doubt it, but it's actually true!! In effect, the USA Patent Office has legally accepted that the phone was invented in the year 2010. Lol!

Now that USA company which was granted that patent is suing all the major mobile phone companies(including Apple) for breaching their patent without negotiating a product licence and any money now owed to them from the sales of all the major brand mobile phones.

What on earth is going on in the USA! Are they going MAD!!?? 

Hawk.

[Napalm Nick]

Watch the film Idiocracy Hawk. I see many parallels in day to day life. Soon the crops will be watered with Gatorade.Lol.

[matty0l215]

Don't start you might set "Tin foil hat" Tracey off

Them's mens in suits gone stealing the brianwaves

[Hawk]

Watch the film Idiocracy Hawk. I see many parallels in day to day life. Soon the crops will be watered with Gatorade.Lol.

You've made me curious.... I'll have to look that film up. Lol 

Hawk.

[Hawk]

Don't start you might set "Tin foil hat" Tracey off

Them's mens in suits gone stealing the brianwaves

Indeed! This would be right up Tracey's street! 

Don't give them ideas Matty they might just develop a device to do that! Hehe!  

Hawk.

[matty0l215]

It's like the people who reckoned they owned the Copyrights to Happy Birthday. Started suing people but quickly got laughed out of court

[Hawk]

It's like the people who reckoned they owned the Copyrights to Happy Birthday. Started suing people but quickly got laughed out of court

Haha! Too right! Lol!   

Yeah. These Patent Officers need to start getting their heads screwed on or they'll all end up in mental institutions for granting patents for such ridiculous patent applications. 

Hawk.

[HornetMaX]

Patent trolling. A very popular, occasionally lucrative (for the troll I mean, as for the lawyers it's always lucrative) and systematically stupid activity nowadays.

[Hawk]

Patent trolling. A very popular, occasionally lucrative (for the troll I mean, as for the lawyers it's always lucrative) and systematically stupid activity nowadays.

Absolutely agree Max...... They did say that the lawyers are making an absolute fortune from it. But the thing is that companies like Apple will have to be adding those costs to their customers. The US Gov should stop that sort of patent trolling.

What gets me is how on earth the patent officers grant a patent that effectively allows them to legally sue any companies for using inventions that are over 100 years old and already in global use? That shouldn't be allowed and they should be more sensible when investigating these trolling patents and refuse them point blank.

Hawk.

[TFC]

Maybe someone at the patent office is making a bit on the side from the lawsuits...

[Toomes1]

Maybe someone at the patent office is making a bit on the side from the lawsuits...

President obama's wife from the looks of it.

[HornetMaX]

What gets me is how on earth the patent officers grant a patent that effectively allows them to legally sue any companies for using inventions that are over 100 years old and already in global use? That shouldn't be allowed and they should be more sensible when investigating these trolling patents and refuse them point blank.

To be honest, the task of the patent office is really a tough one.

At any rate, not everything is rotten, not even in the US, e.g. the recent win for Goggle vs Oracle on the usage of Java APIs.

[Hawk]

What gets me is how on earth the patent officers grant a patent that effectively allows them to legally sue any companies for using inventions that are over 100 years old and already in global use? That shouldn't be allowed and they should be more sensible when investigating these trolling patents and refuse them point blank.

To be honest, the task of the patent office is really a tough one.

At any rate, not everything is rotten, not even in the US, e.g. the recent win for Goggle vs Oracle on the usage of Java APIs.

I really don't know much about that case, but was it really fair for Android to lift Oracles API design seeing as a lot of the code naming conventions were identical which is almost impossible to achieve surely? That is tantamount to plagiarising chapters from a best selling novel, yes?

Hawk.

[HornetMaX]

I really don't know much about that case, but was it really fair for Android to lift Oracles API design seeing as a lot of the code naming conventions were identical which is almost impossible to achieve surely?

Yes it was fair if you ask me (and the judge).

That is tantamount to plagiarising chapters from a best selling novel, yes?

No, because the API was open.

Just Oracle trying to make more money with their legal department than with their developers. They lost and, on top, they are sued because in the proceedings they revealed some confidential info (how much Google pays Apple to be on their phones). Wanna play hardball ? Here it comes

[of course google is no saint, that's why the EU (...) has a pretty beefy folder on them, ready to get discussed]

[Hawk]

The API being open was what I missed..... Now the ruling makes sense to me Max. I agree. 

Hawk.