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Steve Jobs Patents "The Dock"
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| If you're a PC, you may be unfamiliar with The Dock, the bar of icons that
| sits at the bottom or side of a Mac and provides easy access to Apple
| applications. But don't count on it becoming a standard on the PC. On
| Tuesday, the USPTO awarded Apple — and inventor Steve Jobs — a patent for
| their User Interface for Providing Consolidation and Access, aka 'The Dock,'
| after a rather lengthy nine-year wait.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/1224224&from=rss
Another loss for software patents:
Cox Did Not Infringe Verizon's VoIP Intellectual Property, Jury Finds
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| Verizon, which was seeking $404 million in damages against Cox, filed the
| infringement case against Cox early this year after winning a patent
| infringement case against VoIP provider Vonage Holdings. Verizon's original
| filing against Cox cited patents it had exerted against Vonage, but it isn't
| clear from media reports whether the Verizon-Vonage patents figured in the
| final Verizon-Cox decision.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/telecom/voip/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210800149
Recent:
Software Freedom Day (Party!)
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| The problem is patents. LLVM’s license allows more room for Apple to use
| software patents than the GCC’s licenses do. And Apple now has the
| opportunity to maneuver themselves into a place where through those patents
| they can dominate the software that can be run on their machines. Those
| bastards!
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http://digifesto.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/software-freedom-day-party/
Apple files for patent on multiple input technique
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| As the patent application explains, computer systems generally have various
| means of input, but usually these are all independent of each other and not
| combined.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/115708
Apple files notification screen patent, is this really that unique?
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| It is a bit strange that a patent would be needed for something like this
| that even basic feature phones already use in some manner.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/?p=122
Apple files UI elements patent relating to hierarchical menus, more
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| On January 31, the US Patent & Trademark Office published eleven of Apple’s
| patent applications in total. This particular report centers on Apple’s
| patent application titled User interface elements for hierarchical selection
| of items while listing several continuation patents. Apple’s current patent
| generally relates to user interface elements.
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http://www.macnn.com/blogs/?p=488
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