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A few years ago people were suing each other after getting patents for stuff that already existed by having "via the internet" tagged on the end.

Now were in the new age, where all those patents that ended "via the internet" now have "on a mobile telephone" instead.

Collecting email on your phone is patented ?

Get Fucked Microsoft, shove it up your arse



You might benefit from rereading this article.

http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/09/how-to-read-a-patent-...


my rage is not abated


I guess you are a Motorola shareholder or something? If not, is this likely to harm you in any way?


If not, is this likely to harm you in any way?

If it contributes to Android going away and leaving us to "choose" between Apple and Microsoft controlling our computing experience, then yes.


That is extraordinarily unlikely. I can't think of more than one or two big products that have ever been totally shut down as a result of patent infringement. It simply is not done.




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