Comments on: Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system “dysfunctional”

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 20:29:24 +0000

Wow, the level of pedantry here is ridiculous. Also, introducing a blog comment with your list of credentials really is some pathetic posturing.

By: LoopGaroo

LoopGaroo — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:01:37 +0000

I understand Rashid’s point (sorry, could not resist that) but think Rashid is confusing a functional means of describing an object (which is not the only descriptive means) with the object described by it. And the parties were clearing using the Euclid’s definition of a line (or rather, a line segment, since they were not speaking of infinite length) which obviously differs from his definition of a point. And practically, Apple was saying that tapping and sliding are the same thing, which is so patently (sorry, could not resist that either) ridiculous that it insulted the court, as it would have insulted a jury.

Viva Posner!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:52:59 +0000

Posner has a graduate level command of mathematics. Don’t worry about his analysis

By: rough

rough — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:57:43 +0000

re- larryy – isn’t the problem that the USPTO doesn’t enforce the ”obviousness” criteria? The idea is that you should only get patents for things that are sufficiently inventive that a typical person well-versed in this field wouldn’t have thought of them.
And endless patents are awarded in the area of User Interfaces that fail this test massively.
If someone has a truly inventive idea in UI, one that others wouldn’t think of, why should the patent system be closed to them?

By: rough

rough — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:56:11 +0000

hi larryy – isn’t the problem that the USPTO doesn’t enforce the “obviousness” criteria? The idea is that you should only get patents for things that are sufficiently inventive that a typical person well-versed in this field wouldn’t have thought of them.
And endless patents are awarded in the area of User Interfaces that fail this test massively.
If someone has a truly inventive idea in UI, one that others wouldn’t think of, why should the patent system be closed to them?

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:47:59 +0000

Christ! Let it go already. Poor people need mobile phones too.

By: forliro

forliro — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:09:51 +0000

“A point is a spot in space.”
I like how they used a synonym to make it sound like that’s a definition.
“A point is a point”
“A point is a fundamental concept in geometry”.

By: Danox

Danox — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:40:06 +0000

A judge who doesn’t want to do his job and just wants to pass the buck worthless!!

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:48:53 +0000

We could save a lot more money by abolishing the police force and closing down the prison industrial complex. Most crimes are non-violent to begin with and minorities are disproportionately affected overall.

By: Pritesh Desai

Pritesh Desai — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:32:19 +0000

finally sanity prevails!