“A Delaware Company by the name of Cathas Advanced Technologies has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple alleging that the company’s iOS Developer Program infringes on two claims of their patent titled ‘Web-Based Design Software for Keep-Alive Boards,'” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“The plaintiff is seeking a ‘reasonable royalty,'” Purcher reports. “The Cathas Advanced Technologies complaint alleges that that Apple’s iOS Developer Program infringes on patent claims 1 and 10 of their patent 6,925,445.”
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Jesus.
Yes?
Two men say they’re Jesus,
one of them must be wrong.
— Mark Knopfler
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dire+straits/industrial+disease_20040724.html
Pain in the ass…
Oh, for the love of everything logical and right . . . .
Huh?
Did anyone read point 1 and 10?
They have to be joking, right?
I am curious to know where on the IOS developer system I can select or check a series of questions and apple will compile and send me a customized executable.
I guess I don’t know the provisioning portal that well.
Anyone have a clue?
That is becoming a really “spectacular” legal war game:
Rule 1: Sue each other
Rule 2: Get rich
Rule 3: Sue rich first
For the people who want to be productive, you are invited to leave this page as soon as possible. Please do not waste your time. This game becomes boring after a few iterations and will lead to brain decay at human scale or a blackhole at galactic scale.
Thank you… do not come again!
That is becoming a really “spectacular” legal war game:
Rule 1: Sue each other
Rule 2: Get rich
Rule 3: Sue rich first
For the people who want to be productive, you are invited to leave this page as soon as possible. Please do not waste your time. This game becomes boring after a few iterations and will lead to brain decay at human scale or a blackhole at galactic scale.
Thank you… do not come again!
Never have the letters W, T and F been more appropriate than it is now.
I read the claims. They basically patented the software development process. Nice job, Patent Office schmucks.
If its too broad, it has a high risk of being invalidated. That’s what I would go after if I was Apple.
Apple has a Mac developer program too, did they forget to sue about that one?. Tort Reform is really needed, these morons would be far less likely to sue if they had to pony up <b<all the legal fees if they lose.
Sounds good on paper, but would only hurt smaller organizations with legitimate patent infringement claims.
Better solution: eliminate software patents. They never should have been allowed. Thankfully Europe doesn’t recognize them, though multinational special interests are doing their damnest to ram or sneak legislation through that would.
“Better solution: eliminate software patents. They never should have been allowed.”
Agreed
My Bro is a Patent Attorney in D.C. and the place sounds like a mess- a revolving door of people punching their tickets before hiring out to the D.C. Law Cabal. What ends up happening is that very few have deep experience and stupid shit gets approved.
Microsoft patented the mouse click as an input if you can imagine that. Apple and others were shipping clickable mice for years before any Windoze or DOS box. PARC had mice when Jobs peeked under the Kimono pre-Macintosh.
Whatever happened to prior art?
LOL…