Carl
-Original Message- From: Peter Baumann
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2013 2:39 AM
To: Carl Reed OGC ; George Percivall
Cc: Venkatesh Raghavan ; OSGeo Discussions ; OSGeo-Board
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About "Interactive Map" patent application by
Apple Inc.
Hi Ca
Seems they are trying patent filters based on the context of the map displayed
(commuting, weather etc...).
Then, if one touches a map in two places calculate a route between the points
one touches.
Neither of which passes the 'obviousness' test ... in my opinion
Regards,
Jeff
Sent from my
Hi Brent,
On 21 December 2013 21:55, Brent Wood wrote:
>
> - they are not patenting the touchscreen as a new patentable innovation,
> they are patenting the adaptation of a single existing operation to the new
> technology.
Yes, I understand and the difference is clear here, during our conversat
26 AM
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About "Interactive Map" patent application by
Apple Inc.
On 21 December 2013 21:15, Brent Wood wrote:
>
> Click on two points to display a route, touch two points to display a route
> - this is natural progression from mouse based hard
U, re " ... touch two points to display a route ...", do excuse me
while I apply re an invention that's twice as good: Like touch only
ONE point for directions!
>From some experience some years back, I can say that the receipt of a
Cease and Desist Letter can have a deeply chilling effect wit
On 21 December 2013 21:15, Brent Wood 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.
Us
[OSGeo-Discuss] About "Interactive Map" patent application by
Apple Inc.
It was tl;dr, but the quick scan I did seems to have two things that I haven't
seen yet --
1. multi-touch: touch two points on a map and the best route is displayed
immediately;
2. dim everythin
[OSGeo-Discuss] About "Interactive Map" patent application by
Apple Inc.
It was tl;dr, but the quick scan I did seems to have two things that I haven't
seen yet --
1. multi-touch: touch two points on a map and the best route is displayed
immediately;
2. dim everything el
Our Open Source CAD (Computer-Aided-Dispatching, at www.ticketscad.org
) has included for several years now the feature in which given the
incident location, the application returns the list of response units,
ordered by proximity, with driving directions - Google generated -
from the nearest.
I concur 100%. Interestingly, Jaron Waldman is listed as one of the
inventors. His company, Placebase, was purchased by Apple a few years
ago. Placebase was using the old KaMap libraries with heavy
modifications to them in the creation of their product.
After reading the patent application cla
It was tl;dr, but the quick scan I did seems to have two things that I haven't
seen yet --
1. multi-touch: touch two points on a map and the best route is displayed
immediately;
2. dim everything else thereby highlighting only what one wants to look at.
There may be other new things in that lo
Hi Carl, George,
this should be of interest to OGC as well IMHO. It might be that they patent WMS
facets.
best,
Peter
On 12/21/2013 07:05 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
Dear All,
I think the OSGeo should express strong objection to the "Interactive Map"
patent filed by Apple on 17 Dec 2012
http://patents.stackexchange.com/ may be a good place to start a
topic. These guys have managed to block some patents.
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Simon (SPDBA) Greener
wrote:
> While I am not sure of the features in osgeo software to which Venkatesh
> refers, most of what appears in the p
While I am not sure of the features in osgeo software to which Venkatesh
refers, most of what appears in the patent application are natural improvements
to existing map functionality that is common to any mapping software. I can't
see Google letting this through without a fight. I agree with Ven
Dear All,
I think the OSGeo should express strong objection to the "Interactive Map"
patent filed by Apple on 17 Dec 2012 [1]. The contents of the patent [1]
describe features that OSGeo software already provides for over a decade.
Best
Venka
[1]
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect
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