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Allen v. World - The Fight Over Claim Construction | 258 comments | Create New Account

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Allen v. World - The Fight Over Claim Construction

Authored by: capt.Hij on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 05:44 PM EDT

We have been using X11 icons to indicate the mailbox status
since the 1980s and having been trying to find clever ways
to make it more noticeable without being obnoxious ever
since. (How long have we been using a "system tray?" Surely
Borland was finding ways to send notices to the users under
DOS.) This patent basically says that you cannot try to
tweak a user interface once you decide what it should look
like because that would likely be too subtle a way to
display information. The number of ways to count why this
should not be a patent is astounding. Getting a patent now
days is more about the lawyers on your staff than about your
science and technical staff.

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Allen v. World - The Fight Over Claim Construction - Authored by: kattemann on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 04:11 PM EDT

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