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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 12:12 PM EDT |
I don't recall how long ago it was, but the last time I used Quicken, it gave me
a list of previous entries that matched what I had typed every time I started to
enter the payee name for a check. That had to be almost two decades ago. Does
this mean that all of those editions of Quicken and QuickBooks now infringe on
this new patent?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 01:00 PM EDT |
The professor who is being deposed is apparently testifying about work that he
did in 1998, so the original patent application may go back to 1999, so it
doesn't matter whether software that you use has been doing it "for years
now", unless you mean "more than 15 years". It matters whether
any software was doing it at least one year prior to the patent application.
5 years after Edison patented the light bulb, people had been using light blubs
"for years", but no one could come up with an example that predated
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