http://www.slashgear.com/paul-allen-patent-suit-refiled-app-store-itunes-gmail-more-all-cited-29121690/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.slashgear.com/paul-allen-patent-suit-refiled-app-store-itunes-gmail-more-all-cited-29121690/#comment-91084 John Whitaker Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:15:14 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=121690#comment-91084 That’s actually not a problem, that’s the way it has to be. There is no such thing as an invention that is even pure genius the day it is invented, but not “obvious” 15 years later. Everything is obvious in hindsight.

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/paul-allen-patent-suit-refiled-app-store-itunes-gmail-more-all-cited-29121690/#comment-85932 patent litigation Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:23:44 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=121690#comment-85932 One big problem with a patent enforcement suit like this one is that the court is bound by patent law not to review claims for how obvious they seem now, but rather for how obvious they were at the time of filing. That’s one of the difficulties raised by this kind of case, which asks a judge and/or jury to determine what might or might not have been obvious 20 years before. However, it’s up to the court to determine the validity of the patents involved, and Allen has every legal right to use the system to his advantage.
http://www.industryweek.com/articles/patent_enforcement_21538.aspx?SectionID=2

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