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Apple sued for lack of originality
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| APPLE HAS BEEN SLAPPED with another lack of
| originality lawsuit, this time over its
| QuickTime movie player.
|
| Emblaze, which is a group of technology
| companies, claims that it owns a patent that
| describes a system for streaming media and
| that Quicktime infringes it.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1564691/apple-sued-lack-originality
Recent:
Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware
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| Apple's filed a patent on a design for a
| device that won't let its owner use it
| unless that person demonstrates that she
| has complied with an advertiser's demands
| by paying attention to an ad and taking
| some action indicating her dutiful
| attention.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/15/apple-patents-anti-u.html
Apple seeks OS-jacking advert patent
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| Apple has filed a patent application for an
| intrusive ad-presentation system that
| requires users to acknowledge adverts
| before getting on with their work.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/16/intrusive_apple_ad_patent/
Apple Tries To Patent Annoying People With Intrusive Advertising That Requires Attention
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091114/1835226933.shtml
Apple Wouldnât Risk Its Cool Over a Gimmick, Would It?
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| Its distinctive feature is a design that
| doesnât simply invite a user to pay
| attention to an ad â it also compels
| attention. The technology can freeze the
| device until the user clicks a button or
| answers a test question to demonstrate that
| he or she has dutifully noticed the
| commercial message. Because this technology
| would be embedded in the innermost core of
| the device, the ads could appear on the
| screen at any time, no matter what one is
| doing.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/business/15digi.html?_r=1
W3C sidesteps Apple over widget-patent
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| The W3C has spent the last three months
| poring over Apple's patent on remote
| updating, and the web standards organization
| thinks the patent can be avoided by careful
| wording and tweaking a couple of APIs.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/09/widget_patents/
Apple Wants Patents For Crippling Cellphones
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| "Evil is in the eye of the beholder, but there's certainly not
| much to like in the newly-disclosed Apple patent applications
| for Systems and Methods for Provisioning Computing Devices.
| Provisioning, says Apple, allows carriers to 'specify access
| limitations to certain device resources which may otherwise be
| available to users of the device.' So what problem are we
| trying to solve here? 'Mobile devices often have capabilities
| that the carriers do not want utilized on their networks,'
| explains Apple. 'Various applications on these devices may also
| need to be restricted.'"
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http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/02/1214248/Apple-Wants-Patents-For-Crippling-Cellphones?from=rss
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