Re:Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in seriou...
by tptacek on Monday July 18, 2011 @09:06PM
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You're probably right, but that's irrelevant here: a 2005 phone isn't invalidating prior art for a patent filed in 1996. In fact, for some forms of disclosure, there's a cushion of 12 months prior to filing, meaning that conceivably a phone could have been disclosed in 1995 that wouldn't invalidate this one.
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Re:Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in seriou...
by chopsueyar on Monday July 18, 2011 @10:23PM
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No, but you made it seem silly somebody would even create the 2005 phone when the patent had been granted in 1995.