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Your comment is even more impressive because you (and/or Hacker News) violated an Apple patent in your comment above. See Apple's lawsuit against HTC - matching text patterns and turning them into clickable actions is patented by Apple.


Wow, I must have missed that while browsing through them. Excellent find.


As a happy user of HTC Android phones, I've been following the HTC case with some interest. After HTC's setback at the ITC, I decided to take a look at the patents in question and was appalled. Since then, I've been banging this particular drum every time these lawsuits come up because it is a perfect example of exactly how broken everything is.


Almost, but not quite: the patent in question refers to a mobile device. See the huge difference? It matters in patent law.


Here's the patent in question (from the USPTO): http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

The word "mobile" does not appear anywhere within it. In fact, Apple's implementation example is a Power Macintosh. If you consider that any sort of mobile device... well, your back is a lot stronger than mine at the very least.




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