Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent

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....

[Anonymous Coward]

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

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

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

[zill]

Too late. I already patented the hypercube.

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

[NatasRevol]

Also, someone else patented the time cube.

Re:Its not like people havent sued MS b4

[Githaron]

And the companion cube probably has trademarks to deal with.

Re:Its not like people havent sued MS b4

[narcc]

But does it have rounded corners?

That's innovation.

Re:Its not like people havent sued MS b4

[thegarbz]

That certainly adds an extra dimension to this case.