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Why the Apple-Samsung verdict is good for you, your kids and tech

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Re: No innovation without patents? Seriously?

James Watt *couldn't* have written the Steam Engine as there weren't any computers two centuries ago... He may have run around with a stick pretending to play Half-Life though. :)

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Re: Ah yes, the tech blogs of the world are divided

Whereas Apple vs Samsung in the UK was found in favour of Samsung and Apple were told to say sorry on their UK website for bringing Samsungs name into disrepute.

I wonder if the US jury were issued with pitch forks for their deliberations?

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I'm now amused. You think Google was the first search engine to hit the internet?

How about Webcrawler in 1994 or Yahoo! in 1995 or Ask Jeeves in 1996 or MSN in 1998?

FYI, Pagerank was used in Google search from day one (in 1998) and is patented to Stanford University, not Google.

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As a matter of fact, VR headsets have been around since at least the late 80's/early 90's which are most *definately* "Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for projecting a source image in a head-mounted display apparatus for a user."

So yes, even if it was filed 6 years ago, that is still claiming existing tech as their own, but in an all encompassing patent that is vague enough to stop pretty much *any* development in the goggles area by anybody except apple.

And don't get me started on the 604 patent which claims pretty much all search engines as infringing it, even those created before it was filed!

Somebody needs to kick the US patents office up the back side for granting these completely uninnovative pieces of paper which lawyers can so readily turn into pay cheques.

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