Apple has been sued again over their hugely popular iPhone, this time over the screen rendering technology used in both the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
The suit, brought forward by Picsel Technologies, alleges that the rendering process is in clear violation of Piscel's patents. Picsel added the "technology accelerates the process of updating the display on a device."
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Now I'm not quite familiar with the patenting system, but does a patent require an idea/invention to have some type of concrete development? Or can a patent have any type of idea that requires no proof of actual existence? So if someone patents an idea called "technology accelerates the process of updating the display on a device," without any plan or physical product, then someone else just happens to develop that actual working product with no help or knowledge from the original patent, then that is considered patent violation?
just too funny! just the other day there was an article on how they are sewing Palm over summin on the PRE! LMFAO! The viscous circle goes round & round!
Originally posted by slickwill: Now I'm not quite familiar with the patenting system, but does a patent require an idea/invention to have some type of concrete development? Or can a patent have any type of idea that requires no proof of actual existence? So if someone patents an idea called "technology accelerates the process of updating the display on a device," without any plan or physical product, then someone else just happens to develop that actual working product with no help or knowledge from the original patent, then that is considered patent violation?
I think you have to be much more specific than that.
