{"id":183761,"date":"2012-11-29T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/29\/i-dont-know-whether-to-feel-schadenfreude-or-to-be-appalled\/"},"modified":"2012-11-29T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T03:28:00","slug":"i-dont-know-whether-to-feel-schadenfreude-or-to-be-appalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/29\/i-dont-know-whether-to-feel-schadenfreude-or-to-be-appalled\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Know Whether to Feel Schadenfreude, or to be Appalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i990.photobucket.com\/albums\/af27\/msaroff\/applepatentheadphones_610x376.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"380\" \/>I&#8217;m not q big fan the USPTO&#8217;s tendency to grant a patent to <b>everything<\/b> these days, and I&#8217;m even less of a fan of Apples use of its patent portfolio as an alternative new ideas, but <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13579_3-57555502-37\/apple-hit-with-patent-lawsuit-over-iphones-use-of-headphones\/\">the folks at Cuppertino just got hit with a completely bogus patent claim<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">An apparent shell company has filed a $3 million patent infringement lawsuit against Apple for including headphones with its iPhones.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">A company called Intelligent Smart Phones Concepts sued Apple last week in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Apple infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,373,182. The abstract for &#8220;Wireless Mobile Phone Including a Headset&#8221; describes an interface that allows a removable headset &#8220;to receive at least telephony audio signals from the phone, and to provide audio signals to the phone.&#8221; <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, keep patent examiners away from toilet paper, because they will sign off on <b>anything<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not q big fan the USPTO&#8217;s tendency to grant a patent to everything these days, and I&#8217;m even less of a fan of Apples use of its patent portfolio as an alternative new ideas, but the folks at Cuppertino just got hit with a completely bogus patent claim: An apparent shell company has filed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,1060,1109,1191,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-computer","category-ip","category-patent","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}