Re:Obama and the Smartphone Wars
by nkassis on Thursday August 25, 2011 @10:07AM
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It's interesting that the president has the ability to waive ITC imporation bans. But the author calling the patents Apple is using to sue "Inventions" is a little bit far fetched.
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More than a little. I'm beating my favorite patent drum again, but one of Apple's alleged "inventions" (that amazingly survived first-round review at the ITC) is this:
http://www.google.com (i.e. recognizing things like URLs in free-form text and turning them into clickable actions).
Prior art for this includes such obscure pieces of software as Netscape Navigator 2 ("live" URLs in mail and newsgroup messages), released months before Apple filed for this patent.