Friday, February 27, 2004
The Register: "Judge Denies MS Attempt to Re-Define 'Card' "
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 04:38 PM
"A US District Court has agreed that the word 'card' means any 'flat, rectangular piece of stiff material', paving the way for intellectual property company E-Pass to pursue its claim that HP iPaqs running Microsoft software violate its patent for a "multi-function card"...E-Pass claims the Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system violates patent number 5,276,311, which it administers on behalf of the inventor, Hartmut Hennige. The so-called '311 patent' essentially describes an electronic wallet used to hold credit card details securely on said multi-function card."
What I want to know is how the US patent office found so many "talented people" to work there. The patents they give out clearly have a lot of thought behind them... :roll:
What I want to know is how the US patent office found so many "talented people" to work there. The patents they give out clearly have a lot of thought behind them... :roll:
