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oh.. and FIRST!]]>Mar 25th 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/Mar 25th 2009 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/Mar 25th 2009 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/
What, does it want the phone makers to pay for it's therapy bills too?]]>Mar 25th 2009 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/Mar 26th 2009 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/Mar 25th 2009 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/25/california-to-reduce-carbon-emissions-by-banning-black-cars/]]>Mar 25th 2009 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/Mar 25th 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/
CD100 - Introduction to Dicing, Slicing, and Splicing

We called it introdice for short.]]>Mar 25th 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/
I hate winey bitch patent trolls.......]]>Mar 25th 2009 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/
hmmmm.... i think I'm going to go submit a patent.]]>Mar 25th 2009 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/
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Personally, anyone who takes that those people at Verizon to court, has my vote. They are so restrictive in their business practises that I am surprised that THEY dod not get an exclusive on the iPhone. They and Apple make a fibne pair, deserve each other really. ]]>Mar 25th 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/Mar 25th 2009 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/Mar 25th 2009 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/Mar 25th 2009 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/Mar 25th 2009 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/
When will society learn that patents just stifle innovation and in the end we are stuck with products that could be better if more than ONE person could work on it. I say if you make something, it has to do at least 50% more than the original for it to not be a patent infringement (copying someone's work for profit)...then again 50% can also be considered vague.

Man, I hate patents.
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Imagine that you one day you were sitting in a restaurant and thought of a way to make fossil fuels obsolete. You go home, right it out, throw some money at it, convince others of its awesomeness, and convince them to help you out with it. You now have the foundation for a small business with something new to offer the world at large. Finally, after 5 grueling years of hard work and putting all of your time and resources into it, you are ready to go public.

You release and the world is awed by your leetness. Then Ford comes along and reverse-engineers your tech. They sell at a loss just to steal your market share, and you are forced out of business.

This is something that patents try to prevent. (Yeah, I know, sometimes it doesn't work right, but that's what it tried to do). I agree that most news articles regarding patents cast them in a negative light, but that's only because they don't make the news when they're working correctly.

Ok. Back to work. Sud sud.]]>Mar 25th 2009 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/
I agree with you, patents do serve their purpose when used the right way. In your example, there is a clear understanding of what the product is and because it's so ground breaking, anything that comes after it would be easily scrutinized as a copy. But patents begin to fail when they are granted for vauge descriptions: "device that illustrates an image in a way that makes user easily view it" or "device that allows users to interact with the screen with a pointing device" (how in the world can you patent gestures, that to me is beyond ludicrous) - these patents could refer to anything and I think it's patents that fall into this category that should not exist or be granted.

If you patent doesn't spell out what it does in such a way that it could not be misconstrued to mean something else it should be denied.]]>Mar 25th 2009 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/
Ummm.... yeah. Couldn't agree more.

Nothing more to say.]]>Mar 25th 2009 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/
Since when did lawsuits become a business plan? Shame on ITT!

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Mabye it was popular a while ago? I'm pretty young, so that would explain...]]>Mar 25th 2009 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/
"You go home, right it out"
You mean WRITE it out??

"...awed by your leetness"
What in the world is LEETNESS??

Why can't I-T professionals spell and write better than anyone else? I've never understood this! What's happened to education? Is it just about making piles of money and spelling phonetically now? Whatever happened to getting it right??

Sheesh...

]]>Mar 25th 2009 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/Here's a thought (something foreign to you), do some leanrin on the purpose of a patent. And until you actually understand their purpose, go to work for free cause thats what you think these companies should be doing. For crapsakes this is a website dedicated to crap that wouldn't exist without patents. ]]>Mar 25th 2009 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/
Whatever gave you the idea that IT pros should be able to spell and write better than everyone else? Are we the golden standard for this sort of thing? Maybe in addition to an IT guy, I should become a linguist!

As for "leetness", the word has entered the geek lexicon, if not the common, to such a degree that I thought it acceptable to right(!!!) on a blog meant for geeks. Even still, whatever happened to deciphering the definition of a word based on context?

Chill the hell out. You used a semicolon in the place a colon, added an unnecessary hyphen, and used a word not found in the dictionary though its definition is obvious.

Why can't grammar-nazis spell and write better than anyone else? I've never understood this! What's happened to education? Is it just about surfing the interwebbietubes (I made that up just to piss you off) to correct the comments left by others while completely disregarding what the post is actually about? Whatever happened to getting it write?

Gworp...]]>Mar 25th 2009 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/
L337NESS, not LEETNESS.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet for a definition.

And I-T is actually IT.

Don't use double question marks.

And notice the text below the input box:

"Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry."

And before you flame back, (as is inevitable) this /is/ a joke.]]>Mar 25th 2009 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/
And I'm terrible at posting, meant to add a reply an added a new post!]]>Mar 25th 2009 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/itt-sues-verizon-phone-makers-aplenty-over-gps-patent/
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