They should consult someone with legal experience, as well as experience of this type of photography:
http://tinyurl.com/Diamondgeezas B > On 9 May 2014, at 20:25, "John" <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > >> On 5/9/2014 11:36 AM, P.J. Alling wrote: >>> On 5/9/2014 11:25 AM, Bill wrote: >>>> On 09/05/2014 9:15 AM, P.J. Alling wrote: >>>> I thought of becoming a Patent agent not too long ago. I couldn't >>>> fulfill the paper requirements. Yet the system seems to be run by >>>> total incompetents, like much of the rest of our over credentialed >>>> government masters err servants. >>> >>> Someone should try to put a patent on patents. If successful, they >>> would pretty much own the world. >>> I suspect that plain white background portraiture is going to make a >>> comeback in a big way because of this. >>> >>> bill >> I expect, that as this is easily provable as prior art, that Amazon will >> quietly fold, if a high enough profile studio, or individual, with even >> moderately deep pockets, has a lawyer reply to their initial contact to >> cease, and desist based on it. Amazon doesn't want a fight. They want >> to dominate without a fight. > > I've read some speculation that this might be Amazon trying to show how > absurd the current US Patent Law is; something in the light of recent > Apple/Samsung patent wars. > > I'm thinking of Apple patenting rounded corners, finger gestures & such > and then suing everyone. Harks back to when they sued Microsoft over the > "look & feel" of a graphical user interface. > > Amazon's patent may be a figurative "finger gesture" of a sort. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
