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Originally Posted by stealthn
Just read an article on SurfCast suing MS over the "tiles" interface, Surfcast claims they invented it in 2000 and got the patent in 2004. Reading the patent they nailed it and MS totally stole it.
What I don't understand is it is so clearly the same thing how MS was granted a patent on their UI?
MS is going to be paying up...
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Back then Amazon, IIRC tried (did?) patent "one touch purchase" . . .as if patents should apply to such obvious outcomes. :-/
Would you say that the clock on your phone also stole their idea? ...you know, a dynamic info field ("tile" if you will) which when touched, takes the user into more information and/or settings.
So many of these tech patents are just cyber-squatting on what is inevitable extrapolation of code.