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Fishes,
narco. ]]>Feb 10th 2006 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 10th 2006 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 10th 2006 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/
I guess.]]>Feb 10th 2006 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/
Hahahahah!!!]]>Feb 10th 2006 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/
I hope that was his response to the question: "What is wrong with what you are doing?"

Somehow, I doubt it was though. :(]]>Feb 10th 2006 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 10th 2006 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 10th 2006 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 10th 2006 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 10th 2006 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 10th 2006 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 10th 2006 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 10th 2006 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/
I'm not saying I agree with how the USPTO works but as it stands AT&T probably planned things out and knew exactly when they would file the claim.]]>Feb 10th 2006 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/
Because the Patent Office protects start up businesses and their Intellectual Property. You are a moron. ]]>Feb 10th 2006 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/]]>Feb 10th 2006 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 10th 2006 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/
Seriously though, stuff like this just makes companies like Apple and Sony more likely to screw consumers by using their own formats so they don't get stuck with crap like this.]]>Feb 10th 2006 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/
AT&T has actually been persuing licensing agreement for a little while with these companies. They have already signed deals with Nero and Pentax last year.]]>Feb 10th 2006 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/
If I'm not mistaken, didn't SBC actually purchase AT&T Wireless, which is actually a separate entity from regular AT&T? Correct me if I'm wrong on that.]]>Feb 10th 2006 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 10th 2006 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/
I wonder what industrial R&D would be like if you had to show you are still working in an area to keep a patent going:-)]]>Feb 10th 2006 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/
OK, more seriously, is this all these companies can find to do with all of their lawyers? ]]>Feb 10th 2006 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 10th 2006 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/
One of these days they are going to claim they have already patented Gloss White as a color for Laptops, desktops, and monitors., Then later, much later when they ran out of lawsuit ideas they'll claim the rights to modern style design on overprice crap... oh, wait! they already do that.]]>Feb 10th 2006 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 10th 2006 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 10th 2006 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 10th 2006 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/
Another thing about patents is that you make your product's description and the claims broad such that you protect it from the competition--in the end you might not even be describing the accomplishment you made. Patents are in this sense just allegations then. Garbage.]]>Feb 10th 2006 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Please note that my comments aren't in line with #1. I'm not one of Richard Stallman's minions. But I will say that the USPTO does suck but that we should not get rid of it--maybe just change the procedure that patents get accepted and a review of all of the patents. A lot of them are going to be removed anyway, so you might as well spend time caring.

This is America's future we're talking about here, do you want our economy to be substantially legal practices? Patent law has billions of dollars in it, and that's all because the USPTO is careless in selecting what goes in and what doesn't. What a waste, to be quite honest.]]>Feb 10th 2006 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/
I was just thinking the same thing. Except apple doesn't need hello moto for anything. They prob would take the lost of some $$$ for breaking whatever contract they have just to prove a point. (i would)]]>Feb 11th 2006 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 12th 2006 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/Feb 13th 2006 9:49AM