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by alanh
5674 days ago
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That’s a US patent and the lawsuit is Canadian, but I have to imagine they applied for a similar patent in Canada. I hope they lose the case and their patent is invalidated. (Isn’t this system highly similar to how Napster messaging and AIM “direct connection” chats worked, before 2004?) Anyway, here’s another US patent that could be relevant. Seems even weaker, though: “A method of displaying messages on handheld devices. The device displays messages in a scrollable viewport of vertically arranged fields. Date separators inserted into the vertically arranged list of messages to enable the user to associate the messages with a date. …” http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=6lKrAAAAEBAJ |
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