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Bill DavisRe: Apple Patents
by on Jul 20, 2012 at 9:36:45 pm

[Walter Soyka] ""My question -- and it is a question, as I could argue the point both ways -- is this: does this patent on collaborative editorial mark the end of one era, or the beginning of another?"

[Andrew Richards] "I second your question, and you've perfectly articulated the rationale for my skepticism. My inner optimist really wants this thing to become a product, but my inner realist says nothing Apple has been doing in the intervening years would indicate that is likely to happen.
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Not sure here.

Apple seems (in my layman's brain at least) to use patents a bit as shields against endless litigation. (Clearly since they have such deep pockets, they're a massive lawsuit target.)

So if they can lodge a patent in their portfolio that codifies their rights to interface elements, it's gotta be at least SOME hedge against someone claiming that they need to cough up royalties on whatever comes next.

Wasn't that one of the fundamental speculations about why X was such a radical departure? In part because a good chunk of the code in Legacy was licensed rather than original Apple IP?

With their resources and legal clout, perhaps having a robust defensive technology patent filing program is probably just smart basic business. The more they can get ahead of IP issues by constantly working the patent stream, the less time they may have to spend in court fighting against other sharks who want to litigate a chunk of Apple's cash or revenue stream into their own pockets?

It's a cold world out there in big money land.

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