This is why I've never liked android to begin with, it's really a platform of idea leeching and calling it better than the rest.
Just as MS has done throughout the years as well. This happens a lot in the tech industry.
Many of these so called "patents" are simply paper pushing money grabs. Heck, all too often the company didn't actually invent any type of technology, but rather filed the paperwork to get something patented that already existed. Case in point, the
Microsoft patent for "Page up and page down" that they filed in 2005 and were awarded.
United States Patent: 7415666. I wonder what those keys were designed to do for the previous 30-40 years that they existed on every keyboard prior to this revolutionary invention.
No disrespect intended, but this isn't a technology that needs to be protected. It's not a revolutionary inventiony, it's not intellectual property. Filing for this, and having people evaluate it was truly a massive waste of time, money and effort.
Here is a list of some of these absurd patents that Android has violated:
The 11 patents that are getting Android partners in trouble
Things like
- launching an email app to send an email if you click on an email message
- generating a meeting request using a mobile device
- a portable electronic device for photo management and moving from picture to picture.