Firm sues Microsoft and the World+Dog over text patent
If you're going on a spree, go the whole hog
A COMPANY CALLED Autotext has taken legal action against so many high tech companies their names will fill the next paragraph.
They are, in alphabetical order, Apple, AT&T, Helio, HP, HTC America, IBM, Kyocera, LG Electronics, Microsoft, Motorola, Nintendo, Nokia, Nuance, Palm, Qualcomm, RIM, Samsung, Sanyo, Sony, T-Mobile, Verizon and Zi.
Whew.
Autotext claims that the firms have breached a patent it owns numbered 5,305,205, filed in April 1994 and which has the title "computer assisted transcription apparatus".
The firm alleges all of the above firms have used its patent in their own technologies. Apple is accused of using it in Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" and the Safari web browser; AT&T in the 8525 phone; HP in the Ipaq 210 Enterprise, and so on and so forth in different ways and different guises, right up until the end of the alphabet. µ
Comments
This isn't a patent. This is commen sense.
So let me get this strait? A data processor system that can suggest words from a pre, pre, ahhh preMy friend Nick says: Are you referring to the word predetermined?
Ah yes, from a predetermined list of words.
Oh crap, Nick. We might get sued now for that brain system of yours using that patent.
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Yea this is common sense to do, but sadly with our legal system according to the patent he truly does own it's rights. Which is crazy he got it.