Apple Patents Using Apps During Calls 434
bizwriter writes "Apple has had quite a week in patents for the iPhone, and it's only Tuesday. First was the victory at the International Trade Commission over HTC. And now there's a shiny new patent on switching to an app during a live phone call (#8,082,523). There may be non-infringing ways of doing something similar, but they probably will be clumsy in comparison."
You Americans are insane (Score:2, Funny)
If you want to do business with me, come to Canada. I'm not setting foot in the legal nightmare that is the US with my business.
How do I patent????? (Score:5, Funny)
Palm Treo is calling from 2002... (Score:4, Funny)
For the love of god, who is doing prior art searches? Drunken tweeners who don't know how to use Google?!?
Re:"Clumsy" (Score:5, Funny)
See? Ideas are a dime a dozen! Wish I had the wherewithal to patent this... that's why I'm a poor, starving AC.
I used to be a poor, starving AC like yourself. Then, I got a Slashdot account for free! Now I'm a poor, starving Slashdot account holder!
Apple files Patents, Google delivers features (Score:2, Funny)
Apple patent filing date: Jan 2008
First Android ships with said feature implemented: Oct 2008
Re:Prior art (Score:5, Funny)
Because death would be too good for them. *
(* still hyperbole)
Re:Prior art (Score:5, Funny)
That's far older than the other obvious prior art: BlackBerry.
You misspelled Palm.
Re:Evil enough yet? (Score:4, Funny)
And exactly when does Apple receive the moniker: "Lord of all evil"?
And exactly when will the average slashdot reader learn the real meaning of the word "evil"?
Re:Who the heck (what 1 million monkeys) (Score:3, Funny)
Apple invented a document stamping machine a while back which can take a stack of patent request forms and stamp "approved" on them.
I doubt it. The PTO itself has prior art on that.
Re:Prior art (Score:4, Funny)
Apple seems destined to become the number mega patent troll as their range of fad products die off.
Apple - beleaguered company with fad products dying off since 1976. Somehow managing to make it from a garage to the biggest market cap in the world in the process.