Apple's New Patent Weapon — Location Services 323
DaveyJJ writes "Once again, it seems Apple is about to take intellectual property claims to a new level. Apple has been reissued a patent they acquired from Xerox that pretty much wraps up what we know as 'location services' as their own. In the overview, the patent says the system involved will display information specific to the location the device is in. The language used in the patent is broad and powerful. I guess now we wait and see whom Apple will use this against?"
You are here... (Score:5, Funny)
Alas, no longer can roadside maps or sextants be used.
Nice Things (Score:5, Funny)
This is why we can't have nice things.
The patent office and laws are at best dysfunctional.
Hand in your eyeballs (Score:5, Funny)
Hand in your eyeballs - they can be used to acquire information specific to the location the eyeballs are in.
You wouldn't steal a car -- violating someone else's laughable intellectual property is theft!
Re:You are here... (Score:5, Funny)
Avert your eyes from the stars, matey, ye be violatin' Apple's patents!
Steve would have never done that (Score:5, Funny)
Man, that company has really went downhill.
Re:Nice Things (Score:5, Funny)
This is why we can't have nice things.
You're confused. You can have Apple's nice things. Please report to your nearest iReprogramming Center immediately. The Geniuses there will help you.
Re:Damn (Score:4, Funny)
>> Damn. I guess I'll go and paint all my car windows black.
Is your name Spike?
Re:Hand in your eyeballs (Score:4, Funny)
Ok, I don't know about all the otehr stuff you wrote but: /. really offends me!
Why wouldn't I steal a car?
This kind of prejudging that happens on
Re:You are here... (Score:5, Funny)
Simple, the transmission of distributed information is the distribution of maps and sextants from the publisher/manufacturer, and the info retreival is done on the user's end by looking at the map or through the sextant.
I know, I know, but this is ON A COMPYUTAR!
Not just any compyutar, one with rounded corners.
Re:Nice Things (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You are here... (Score:5, Funny)
A movie prop is not prophetic enablement.
How about birds, who have been found to follow magnetic field of the Earth for migration?
Apple has been granted an injunction against all migrating bird species - prepare for Really Angry Birds
Re:Evidence that patents need a limited time frame (Score:4, Funny)