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“If she’s successful in getting others to follow her example, Peters could inspire a whole new litigation strategy in the auto industry and other businesses. Working together but filing lawsuits independently, consumers could force companies to go mano a mano with individual plaintiffs in far-flung courtrooms nationwide.” “We’ve included the whole patent description below, mainly because it is possibly the longest sentence we have ever seen, and thus, is a thing of beauty.” Perspective. (Source: youtube.com) “Companies that use patents on startups are attacking innovation at the root. Now there’s something any individual can do about this problem, without waiting for the government: ask companies where they stand.” Copying Is Not Theft - Official Version (by questioncopyright) for ben Patents were meant to encourage innovation, but lately they are being used as a weapon to stop it. “This was the latter case. Rarely, have I encountered such swagger, and I tried to respond in kind.” “Now, maybe you’d like to quibble and claim the idea of putting an accelerometer in a hand-held device is non-obvious. I think it was pretty obvious, myself, and doing that goes to the group working on Project Mercury. I don’t remember any patent being filed there. And having done so, it seemed obvious to hook it up to the screen. I know we did not file any patents. Are either of these ideas worth a patent? Personally, I think both ideas are pretty obvious, the first idea more original than the second. But I’m sure the first handheld device with touch screen, with accelerometer, rotating the screen under control of that accelerometer was in my hand running my code below, sometime in the year 2000 or 2001 (I haven’t tried to excavate the exact date), and that it was widely published on the Internet and used by hundreds of people.”
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