End of android!?

[EarlyMon]

As IOWA likes to point out, lots of people eat at McDonalds. Doesn't make it right.

Before the dot-com changes to our patent system, companies had little trouble keeping embodiment descriptions broad without making them vague.

Can't say it enough - we live in broken times. Look up patent 6080436, the "Bread Refreshing Method" - yep. It's a patent on toasting bread.

Intellectual Ventures And The War Over Software Patents : Planet Money : NPR

 

[Bob Maxey]

As IOWA likes to point out, lots of people eat at McDonalds. Doesn't make it right.

Before the dot-com changes to our patent system, companies had little trouble keeping embodiment descriptions broad without making them vague.

Can't say it enough - we live in broken times. Look up patent 6080436, the "Bread Refreshing Method" - yep. It's a patent on toasting bread.

Intellectual Ventures And The War Over Software Patents : Planet Money : NPR

I looked at the patent. I am not sure my oven will reach four thousand five hundred degrees, however. So, I can continue refreshing my bread products, right? Morning without a nice biscuit or muffin would be unbearable.

Seriously, if the patent owner(s) tried to enforce their patent, how far would they get?

And I absolutely agree with you. The system needs to be refreshed as per patent #6080436.