[Solar-general] Patentes

Jue Jun 3 23:30:22 CEST 2004

Dos noticias sobre patentes andan por los foros: por un lado Microsoft
recibio la patente del metodo del "doble click" para lanzar aplicaciones
una patente ridicula, y por otro lado la Federal Trade Commission de los
EE.UU. esta preocupada por la forma en que se estan otorgando patentes.

Technology industry hits out at 'patent trolls'
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By Maggie Shiels
In California
(published by the BBC)

Mad cap patents ranging from protecting a method of painting by dipping a
baby's bottom into paint or a system for keeping track of people queuing
for the bathroom may soon be a thing of the past if the Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) has its way.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3722509.stm

1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks - All Patented
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Contributed by Mike on Tuesday, April 27th, 2004 @ 02:35PM
from the click-to-pay dept.
theodp writes "Not to be outdone by Amazon's 1-Click patent, Microsoft
snagged a patent from the USPTO Tuesday for a Time based hardware button
for application launch, which covers causing different actions to occur
depending upon whether a button is pressed for a short period of time, a
long period of time, or multiple times within a short period of time. So
does pressing car radio buttons for different periods of time to change or
set stations constitute patent infringement?" What about double-clicking?
Seems like a fair amount of prior art. I know my caller ID box requires a
"double-click" to delete phone numbers. Also, I may not remember
correctly, but I was under the impression that Apple's famous "one-button"
mouse allows you to fake a right mouse click if you hold down the button.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20040427/1435203_F.shtml

Link a la patente en el sitio de la oficina de patentes:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,727,830.WKU.&OS=PN/6,727,830&RS=PN/6,727,830

Ricardo H. Medel
Stevens Institute of Technology
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