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____/ Phil Da Lick! on Thursday 20 August 2009 09:53 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft Hit with Another Two Patent Suits
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>> | EMG Technology has charged Microsoft with violating Patent
>> | 7020845, "Navigating internet content on a television using a simplified
>> | interface and a remote control," and Patent 7441196, "Apparatus and method
>> | of manipulating a region on a wireless device screen for viewing, zooming
>> | and scrolling internet content." Both patents have been infringed upon by
>> | Microsoft Windows CE, PocketPC and Windows Mobile, the suit charges.
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>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351761,00.asp
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> There's blood in the water...
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> Sooner the bigwigs like M$ push for abolishing pure software patents the
> better. "navigating internet content on a television"... yeah thats
> surely reoluvtionary and deserving of a patent that one. Same goes for
> the other - wonder how long until they go after the iphone on that one.
Many things were turned into patents because they were applied "over the
Internet" or "digitally". It's just an intuitive extension of things people
have done for decades if not centuries.
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