http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/ Engadget Comments for Cingular claims emoticon patent http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/
The USPTO needs to be taken out behind the barn and shot.]]>Jan 26th 2006 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/
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"...now that the US Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company a patent for using a..."

I'm sorry, maybe my English reading skills is a little off today, but that sentence clearly states that the patent was granted not that an application was submitted.]]>Jan 26th 2006 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/Jan 26th 2006 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/Jan 26th 2006 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/
USPTO is overburdened with a lot of crappy applications. They're doing the best they can with the limited time and resources they have. How about taking the LAWYERS who submit this crap out back?

(please fix your submission so it can be viewed from the main page and not merely by the people who check the comments)]]>Jan 26th 2006 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/
And, as the article stated, Cingular isn't patenting emoticons, they are patenting a method for displaying them, using macros or other keys.]]>Jan 26th 2006 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/Jan 26th 2006 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/
Not saying your reading skills are at fault - just saying we should all be a little diligent before flaming or forwarding on bad info.

Go look it up on the USTPO website -

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20060015812&OS=20060015812&RS=20060015812]]>Jan 26th 2006 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/Jan 26th 2006 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/
citing microsoft is the ultimate irony, considering how they totally ripped off apple's icon GUI decades ago and that was also patented by the way (not trying to start a historical flame war, but demonstrating a clear example of how this sort of patent will not hold water).

On a lighter note, Cingular must die.]]>Jan 26th 2006 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/Jan 26th 2006 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/soon i'll be rich...]]>Jan 26th 2006 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/
So, does that mean that Cingular's patent (or application -- I can't be arsed to read the articles) will cover speech on a mobile phone? Now that *must* have prior art!

Or will I have to pay Cingular each time I say "Yeah, I'm fine. How are you?"]]>Jan 26th 2006 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/Jan 26th 2006 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.despair.com/demotivators/frownonthis.html]]>Jan 26th 2006 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/Jan 26th 2006 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/Jan 26th 2006 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/SE, has been using emoticons, so when you write :) it displays a smiley, and Samsung, SE, and LG, have little animated images too. (for anger, sadness, etc..)
This'll apply to US (and the 51st state UK) maybe.]]>Jan 26th 2006 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/
1.) the patent was NOT ISSUED. It is MERELY A PUBLISHED APPICATION.

2.) The patent seeks claims for a device (e.g. a phone) that has PHYSICAL KEYS FOR EACH EMOTICON THAT THE USER CAN SELECT. While this probably isn't patentable, it's not like they are trying to claim emotions for crying out loud.

Of course, I realize FACTS have NO PLACE when software folks talk about patents.]]>Jan 26th 2006 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/Jan 26th 2006 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/Jan 26th 2006 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/Jan 27th 2006 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/Jan 27th 2006 12:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/
Even if it's nothing but an application, Cingular needs public flogging. Emoticons were around on usenet before that stupid phone company was even born.

And anyway, you're all dust beneath my wheels. (rips mask off) I'm Dogbert, and I patented the ones and the zeroes long ago. Pay up, suckers! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-haa.]]>Jan 27th 2006 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/
Damn limeys.]]>Jan 27th 2006 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15792.php

PLAIN ENGLISH

Posted 1-26-06, same day as the emoticon article. Also linked to through this article.

"Update

It has been pointed out to us that this is a patent application at the moment - the patent has not yet been formally granted. "

Applications are granted numbers, because that's how things are organized. You assign call numbers to things, particularly patents, when you have 1323985739245 of them, including applications.

End of discussion. It's called literacy, try it sometime.]]>Jan 27th 2006 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/26/cingular-claims-emoticon-patent/
thats my guess]]>Jan 27th 2006 1:19PM