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Re:iA makes patent threats by Touche on Friday December 27, 2013 @06:12PM (#6973053)
In this case the thing iA tried to copyright was one of Apple's own APIs.
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Re:iA makes patent threats by jrnkntl on Friday December 27, 2013 @06:24PM (#6973095)
NSLinguisticTagger that is, for anyone wondering.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/cocoa/...

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Re:iA makes patent threats by rbanffy on Friday December 27, 2013 @07:14PM (#6973260)
If it's a bad patent (as is so common with software patents) we have a different problem. One that will, eventually, solve itself in a most spectacular way.
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