Microsoft patent...the iPod
15-08-2005, 21:52
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Microsoft patent...the iPod
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15-08-2005, 22:08
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Re: Microsoft patent...the iPod
Don't Microshaft part-own Apple anyway?
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15-08-2005, 22:11
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Re: Microsoft patent...the iPod
BILLBORG AGAIN resistance is futile 
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15-08-2005, 22:14
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Re: Microsoft patent...the iPod
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Don't Microshaft part-own Apple anyway?
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They used to, not anymore.
This shouldnt be allowed, it was filed after the release of the iPod! Surely you cant patent something already on the market from another company
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15-08-2005, 22:18
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This shouldnt be allowed, it was filed after the release of the iPod! Surely you cant patent something already on the market from another company
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Well, Apple should have filed first then, shouldn't they. Their fault for being late.
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15-08-2005, 22:20
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Yeah, But MS can take money from something they didnt invent. They could effectively stop apple using there own design
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15-08-2005, 22:24
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Patenting....1st come, 1st served.
Apple should have filed earlier. Doesn't look like it matters that they had a product, using the idea, out on the market first...not if they hadn't patented it first.
Anyway, it's only one patent, relating to something seemingly similar to part of the iPod's UI. It's not like the whole iPod.
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15-08-2005, 22:33
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Re: Microsoft patent...the iPod
MS are getting stupid with their trying to patent everything on the planet it seems
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15-08-2005, 22:35
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Surely they check this, you cant really patent another persons invention just because they hadnt yet!
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15-08-2005, 22:36
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Surely they check this, you cant really patent another persons invention just because they hadnt yet!
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check you history naming one the light bulb 
sorry
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15-08-2005, 22:36
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Re: Microsoft patent...the iPod
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We are Microsoft
Lower your firewall and surrender your data
your computer and browsing habits will serve to suit ours
resistence is futile.
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15-08-2005, 22:49
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Re: Microsoft patent...the iPod
They wont charge apple to use it, because that would look bad. Maybe Apple will win the appeal anyway.
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15-08-2005, 22:53
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Re: Microsoft patent...the iPod
Good luck to them
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16-08-2005, 02:28
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Re: Microsoft patent...the iPod
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Patenting....1st come, 1st served.
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You can't (or, at least, you aren't supposed to be able to!) patent something which has already been demonstrated in public.
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16-08-2005, 06:03
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Re: Microsoft patent...the iPod
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Patenting....1st come, 1st served.
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You can't (or, at least, you aren't supposed to be able to!) patent something which has already been demonstrated in public. |
- they can, because they are
- it's more a case of "first come, first served"
Though I think Apple should have the patent, seeing as it's theirs, but if they can't be assed to file then that's their call... 
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