Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble

Re:Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in seriou... by hn_decay on Monday July 18, 2011 @08:06PM (#2778972)

There is no hindsight effect about the notion of identifying classes of text in a string of text. I fully and completely anticipate that patent being invalidated.

"If something is blindingly obvious at the time, it probably won't get a patent. The USPTO and other such agencies are not perfect but they are not total imbeciles."

The USPTO has shown, time and time again, to be willing imebeciles. They have habitually approved virtually all patents, opening them for review only when contested. I have zero expectation that they are doing any serious review of these patents, and they most certainly are not consulting any industry experts to gauge the true novelty of a patent.

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Re:Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in seriou... by petegrif on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @08:51AM (#2780611)

You may or may not be correct about the fact that there was prior art in the case of the Apple suit. That however does not refute my key point which is that time and time again discussions include endless statements about how obvious something is, not a discussion about how obvious it was then.

As for your statements about the USPTO that is just a rant. It doesn't contribute anything to a real discussion.

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