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Authored by: stegu on Friday, August 24 2012 @ 09:31 AM EDT |
I read the patent you referred to, and I was
flabbergasted. The patent description talks
in great length about a handheld phone/computer
that seems to be able to do all kinds of wonderful
things, but then the claims, where I have learned
to look to see what is actually patented, describe
a very, very mundane and obvious "method and
apparatus" for looking up names in an address
book, in a thousand obfuscating words without
any real substance, lacking any novelty.
Where's the invention? Is this all there is?
Is this Palm's "smartphone patent"? It's a patent
on incremental alphabetical search in an address
book using the first two letters of an entry.
Did somehow 90% of the claims, those that made
this invention a smartphone and not just an
electronic list of contacts, get lost in the
conversion to an electronic document?
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