On 21 December 2013 21:15, Brent Wood <pcr...@pcreso.com> wrote: > > Click on two points to display a route, touch two points to display a route > - this is natural progression from mouse based hardware to touch screen > mode. There should not be any patent there, it is just a generic change in > pointing device.
User can type a word to 'feed' computer with input, user can speak... - this is natural progression from keyboard to voice operation of a HID. IANAL, and I'm very far from being supportive to the patent in subject, but I sense such reasoning would be easy to reject at court. > > Shock, horror - could OSGEO join with ESRI to contest this? You mean, OSGeo. Perhaps, a letter with formal protest is technically possible. Best regards, -- Mateusz Ĺoskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss