I'm all for companies trying to sue based on broad patents like this. The more broad and ridiculous they are, the better. Maybe people will start opening their eyes to all of the troubles in our current patent system.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 25, 2008 1:00 PM, hank williams <<a href="mailto:hank777@gmail.com">hank777@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/01/are-apple-rim-and-google-all.html" target="_blank">Today I blogged about a company</a> that has a patent on what I would call the essence of putting a GPS in a cell phone.<br>
<br>I provided some details on the patent in my blog, but the essence of the story is covered in this excerpt:<br>
<br>"It appears that, in essence, the patents cover a phone providing
current location information to a remote database which returns to the
phone a collection of location centric information. According to the
patent application, this location centric information could include
real estate information, such as homes, condominiums, etc, but also
parks, restaurant menus, services offered, hotels, hotel availability,
and on and on."<br><br>This, it appears, is an incredibly broad patent with major implications.<br clear="all"><br>Hank<br><font color="#888888">-- <br>-----------------------------------------<br><a href="http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com" target="_blank">whydoeseverythingsuck.com</a>
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