Maybe you’d like to know—or maybe you woudln’t?—that some no-name company is suing our Apple, claiming that the touch screen in its iPhone infringes upon one of its patents. The company, SP Technologies, which is the successor to Conglom-O, says that Apple “has infringed, and is now infringing” (ooh, how official sounding) on its patent for “method and medium for a computer readable keyboard display incapable of user termination.”
Duke Nukem Forever will come out before this suit ever impacts Apple.
Apple Hit With iPhone Patent Suit From Disgraced Doc [Information Week via iLounge]
America is the land of the suing idiots. You can sue for coffee being too hot, for cigarettes giving you lung cancer, for Xbox360’s killing your baby, so why not do some good old patent trolling and sue Apple for some technology probably a million people around the world have been dreaming up forty years ago already? Maybe it’ll annoy Apple enough to make the suit disappear with a handy little settlement check.
After all, moolah is all this suit is about, or was SP Technologies (which is probably a shadow company for Columbian drug lords) ever going to have an actual product with that patent?
One of the claims:
The method of entering data on a touch screen display of claim 2 wherein the executable code is compiled visual basic code.
Well we know for sure that there isn’t any visual basic code in the iPhone. Case dismissed.