Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent 255
An anonymous reader writes with news of a company suing Microsoft for infringing upon a patent for tiles with live content. From the article: "SurfCast, in a complaint filed yesterday in a U.S. District Court in Maine, said Microsoft infringes one of its four patents — No. 6,724,403 — by 'making, using, selling, and offering to sell devices and software products' covered by SurfCast's patent. That includes mobile devices using the Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 operating systems as well as PCs using Windows 8/RT."
Re:Patent trolls suck but.... (Score:2, Funny)
Scheudenfreude is not an admirable trait... hopefully you're not passing that on to children.
Oh, but wouldn't it be just great if he did?
Re:Its not like people havent sued MS b4 (Score:5, Funny)
Mothafucka's patented the SQUARE
Shit. I'm about to get Platonic on that one, and patent me a CUBE.
Re:Its not like people havent sued MS b4 (Score:4, Funny)
All dots, lines, squares, and cubes are lower dimensional derivatives of my hypercube design and thus require a license from me.
Re:Its not like people havent sued MS b4 (Score:4, Funny)
Also, someone else patented the time cube.
Re:Its not like people havent sued MS b4 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Its not like people havent sued MS b4 (Score:5, Funny)
But does it have rounded corners?
That's innovation.
Re:Its not like people havent sued MS b4 (Score:4, Funny)
That certainly adds an extra dimension to this case.