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Re:A US judge rules Samsung 'infringed' Apple's auto-complet... by bushido on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @09:40AM (#7102715)
This is disgusting. I have had auto-complete on my mobile devices for years. Easily as far back as 2003.

Its baffling that this patent was awarded. Even more so that technology innovators are being so anti-competitive and stifling innovation.

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Re:A US judge rules Samsung 'infringed' Apple's auto-complet... by Pxtl on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @11:57AM (#7103810)
I'm confused how Samsung's lawyers failed to show prior art or the fact that it was an obvious development. Autocomplete is on every IDE worth a bean, every T9-based phone... even if iOS was the first to bring it to the touch-screen, that's not exactly a huge leap.
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