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You would think that this kind of stuff was just about on its way out the door, and argues well for patent reform, yet ArsTechnica is reporting this morning that once again, patent trolls are out in force. They state:

The patent holding company IP Innovation, LLC, has filed a lawsuit against Apple, Inc., that alleges the Cupertino-based company has engaged in “willful and deliberate” violations of US Patent #5,072,412. The patent describes a computer operating system interface with “workspaces provided by an object-based user interface appear to share windows and other display objects.” Filed in the patent litigation sinkhole of Marshall, TX, the lawsuit accuses Apple of “directly infringing at least claim 21 of the ‘412 Patent through, among other activities, the manufacture, use, sale, offer for sale and/or importation into the United States of its Mac OS X v10.4 ‘Tiger’ operating system.” Source: ArsTechnica

Source: ArsTechnica

Interesting article, worth spending some time with, if anything is going to keep innovation from happening, it is the vast number of patents that address elements or style in what has become almost universal across all computing platforms.

Update - Very important - we got a comment on this one that we are blog spam from someone reporting to be ArsTechnica which we used as a source for this file, as such we have removed the direct quote, and left only a link to the ArsTechnica Article for you to read. So we have a note into ArsTechica to see if this is for real or not. We did note that under their reprints policy, we did break their standards for commercial use here which we didn’t know about. While we love arstechnica, we hope this does not cause a rift. Apologies from Techwag.

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