iconoclasttt commented on Google StreetView's Homegrown Competition?

"My knee-jerk response was cell coverage mapping."

iconoclasttt commented on Apple Sued For iPhone Patent Infringement, Again

"@valkilmerisawful: For you and everyone else who seems to be suggesting "let's just patent [some thing that is now commonplace] and run to the bank": please stop. You don't have to like the fact that non-practicing entities (i.e., "trolls") sue others based on patents they don't use."

iconoclasttt commented on Apple Sued For iPhone Patent Infringement, Again

"@TheCrudMan: A very quick glance at the first patent suggests to me that the "shutter mechanism" in the claims need not be a mechanical shutter. Interpreting claim language can be a bit of a black art (also known as full employment for attorneys)."

iconoclasttt commented on Kodak's Slow Fade: Inventor of OLED Sells OLED Business

"Wow."

iconoclasttt commented on Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic Freedoms

"@NorwoodIsMyHero: Agreed."

iconoclasttt commented on Microsoft Patents The Sudo Command

"@PotteryBarnClearanceSale: What you've quoted is not the "patent claim," but rather the abstract, which has no practical legal significance in defining the scope of the patent. The claims define patent scope, and these claims include many features that go well beyond what sudo ever did."