Re: PBI: tear-off tab items?
Re: PBI: tear-off tab items?
- Subject: Re: PBI: tear-off tab items?
- From: Jeff LaMarche <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:19:39 -0500
On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 08:07 AM, Janek Priimann wrote:
(d) Illegal. Adobe has a patent on this type of interface. See for
yourself:
Thats why software patents should be banned for good.
And please remember (because most people don't) that because the USPO
accepted a patent doesn't mean it's enforceable. A great many
technology patents are not enforceable, or are at least of questionable
validity, but most people want to stand up to a cease and desist
letters from the attorneys for a large corporation, they might as well
be enforceable.
I don't personally know if Adobe's "detachable tab" patent has been
tested in court (it may have), but filing with the USPO only creates a
presumption; it is not an incontrovertible statement that the idea
deserves legal protection. There are a number of ways to show that a
patent doesn't deserve legal protection, such as showing prior art
(e.g. someone else was doing it before the patent was filed).
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