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by deskglass 2358 days ago
What is the recourse here? Would it be reasonable to contact the person that approved the patent with information showing that plenty flashcard systems precede this patent? I imagine there is some more formal system.
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> What is the recourse here?

If you want to make a flashcard program, pray to gods Google will take pity on you and not enforce their patent. Otherwise, you better had set aside a couple of million dollars for the patent fight with Google. I mean, the patent will eventually get invalidated, but not before a decade in courts and millions of dollars in costs.

EDIT: Ignore everything I said. I got confused. I apologize. I am not going to change the original comment so the context of the replies would be preserved.

It's not a Google patent. The article link is just a link to patents.google.com, which is a Google search engine for patents not a list of patents owned by Google.
Why would Google pay to enforce a patent it doesn't own?
Somebody confused (Google's (patents search)) with ((Google's patents) search)
It looks like it's a person (not a company) that owns the patent too, so unless this person is a m/billionaire a court case doesn't even sound that bad.
All patents are granted to people not companies. The people may then assign to a company the right to enforce the patent.
Oh, I actually didn't know that. Thanks!
Until a troll buys the patent.