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City Caller ID is already patented by another company
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| I don't have the time or money to license
| this technology and use it from Cequint.
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http://www.threadabort.com/archive/2010/02/20/city-caller-id-has-been-sued-by-cequint.aspx?mp=1
City Caller ID - My First Android App
http://www.threadabort.com/archive/2009/12/14/city-caller-id-my-first-android-app.aspx
Guy Who Makes Simple Caller ID App For Android Forced To Shut Down Due To Patent Threat
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| Seriously, can any patent supporter explain
| with a straight face how patents like this
| promote progress? What kind of incentive does
| a patent create in this case? Can you
| honestly claim that this kind of monopoly was
| necessary to "invent" a way to match a phone
| number to a city?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100224/0244468285.shtml
No, You Don't Have To File Patent Lawsuits
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100225/0303338302.shtml
Related:
The Death of Google's Patents
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| The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed
| position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most
| software patents, including pioneering patent claims to such innovators as
| Google, Inc.
|
| [...]
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| The logic of the PTOâs positions in Nuijten, Comiskey and Bilski has always
| threatened to destabilize whole fields of patenting, most especially in the
| field of software patents. If the PTOâs test is followed, the crucial
| question for the vitality of patents on computer implemented inventions is
| whether a general purpose computer qualifies as a âparticularâ machine within
| the meaning of the agencyâs test. In two recent decisions announced after the
| oral arguments in the Bilski case, Ex parte Langemyr (May 28, 2008) and Ex
| parte Wasynczuk (June 2, 2008), the PTO Board of Patent Appeals and
| Interferences has now supplied an answer to that question: A general purpose
| computer is not a particular machine, and thus innovative software processes
| are unpatentable if they are tied only to a general purpose computer.
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http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/07/the-death-of-go.html
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