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Re:Patent troll says it owns GPS, sues Foursquare by andrewpi on Friday July 27, 2012 @02:37PM (#4302910)
I haven't fully reviewed the patents in question, but the oldest looks to have a filing date of sometime in late 2000. I would think that there has to be some prior art out there for many of the claims of this patent. For example, the sport of geocaching was founded in May 2000, and people pretty quickly started writing software applications to assist in finding caches.
Re:Patent troll says it owns GPS, sues Foursquare by propercoil on Friday July 27, 2012 @02:38PM (#4302919)
oh there is prior art. the military used GPS way before 2000
Re:Patent troll says it owns GPS, sues Foursquare by pjscott on Friday July 27, 2012 @02:48PM (#4302989)
The patents aren't on GPS; they're on obvious uses of GPS. (In both cases, the entire technical value of the patent could fit in a single Tweet.)
Re:Patent troll says it owns GPS, sues Foursquare by enjo on Friday July 27, 2012 @09:47PM (#4304408)
This is going to fail the test for triviality.