Thread: Nokia VS Apple Patent Battle ends in Agreement (Apple pays Nokia)
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momcilo is offline momcilo
2011-06-14 , 14:03
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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
Wrong. Patents are about the specific implementation to achieve the purpose. If you somehow use that implementation no matter to what purpose, you are in a danger of infringing.
Have you ever read any patent application?

Well, let's just say that your definition of patent is close to the 19 century definition.

Today, patents are written in such way that they cover not only the particular implementation being protected, but it's scope is extended as much as possible.

Example patent:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...S=PN/6,125,447

More info can be found here:
http://blog.headius.com/2010/08/my-t...-v-google.html
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Oracle_v._G...282010,_USA%29

EDIT: Added link to one of the patents within Oracle vs Google, and an article about the issues
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Last edited by momcilo; 2011-06-14 at 14:33.