Apple patents or Microsoft patents….which are more interesting?

May 24, 2005 on 10:36 pm | In Interesting Patents |

Have you checked out patentmojo.com yet?

Mojo

It allows you to set up RSS feeds of patent searches (i.e., every time company A receives a patent…send me an email).  Pretty slick concept.  They have a number of "sample" RSS feeds set up…a great way to try out their services. 

Surprisingly, there are (as of this second) 93 people subscribed to the Apple patent feed and only 26 subscribed to the Microsoft patent feed.  Does that mean that more people find Apple/Mac/iPod patents Interesting than Microsoft/Windows patents?

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2 Comments

  1. Even more amazing is that there is not a single subscriber to the drug or telecom feeds.

    Personally, I use Delphion to shoot out weekly emails for searches that I can configure.

    Comment by Russ Krajec — May 25, 2005 #

  2. On the topic of “Apple patents and Microsoft patents” and which are “more interesting”,

    here is is something that is truly “interesting” to consider:

    On May 10, 2005 Apple was granted a design patent for a Tablet PC

    US Design Patent No. D504,899

    (plus the cover page reveals a co-pending utility patent application of the same title and named “inventors”)

    (see this article: http://www.macobserver.com/article/2005/05/10.18.shtml)

    …well some of recall that super sleuth lawyer/blogger Stephen Nipper reported a year ago on prior art in the Eolas vs. Microsoft case, and the very same prior art reference reported by Nipper clearly INVALIDATES the design patent issued to Apple 2 weeks ago!

    Furthermore, though I am not 100% certain I am about 99.9% sure that others blogged on how the MIT inventor cited in the US#5495581 reference, personally told Steve Jobs about how his patent could be applied against Eolas in the pending litigation with Microsoft — before the March 2004 filing date of the now-issued Apple patent, which includes Steve Jobs as one of the “inventors”. And for what? For a product Jobs told the press REPEATEDLY was not even worth considering, because the tablet format is a “dead end that only interests Gates”. This now raises the question of intellectual property theft and perjury on the part of Mr. Jobs! It also raises questions about what other stolen secrets Jobs and Gates have been privy to, that is of such perceived significance to the both of them that it’s worth perjuring themselves over. …

    And, given how Congress is presently working on reforming patent law, it seems appropriate that Congress investigate what Microsoft, Apple, and others are “really up to” while pretending otherwise to the public.

    …and as for Nipper and the other bloggers who first reported these things, perhaps Congress should consider honoring them, should it turn out that some kind of “IP Watergate” has been perpetrated by these “stars of the business world” — while pretending to be innovators and “defenders of innovation”.

    Comment by law student in fall — May 31, 2005 #

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