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Enigma

4:42 PM on 26 February, 2009

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You are such cynic Gords.

MS were just being helpful to a start-up by not burdening them with the costs of IP issues - as you know these laywers don't come cheap.

Must go I see a pig flying by.

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mrdog

6:01 PM on 26 February, 2009

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that is probably just steve balmer in his flying car

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Ohmz

6:19 PM on 26 February, 2009

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@ mr dog, I almost cried laughing so hard!

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Jay4d0

7:39 PM on 26 February, 2009

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what exactly is the lawsuit contesting? the GPS? the maps? or the hardware of it all?

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piesforyou

7:50 PM on 26 February, 2009

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So what exactly are the infringements? What do other GPS companies license from MS?

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piesforyou

12:08 AM on 27 February, 2009

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Comments on slashdot say at least one of the infringements is against Fat32. Since tomtoms write data to memory cards and such using fat32, and microsoft has various patents surrounding fat32.

Oh wait, here's the pdf of the complaint: http://media.techflash.com/documents/tomtomComplaint.pdf

Get this, they patented "Vehicle Computer System with Open Platform Architecture", "“Method and System For Generating Driving Directions", "Methods and Arrangements for Interacting with Controllable

Objects within a Graphical User Interface Environment Using Various Input Mechanisms", "Portable Computing Device-integrated Appliance", "Vehicle Computer System with Wireless Internet Connectivity", "Common Name Space for Long and Short Filenames", "Method and System for File System Management Using a Flash-

Erasable, Programmable, Read-only Memory".

Um.... right.

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Enigma

1:01 AM on 27 February, 2009

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Who cares! Most patents are on shakey ground. What matters you can get the patent office to blieving you have a case.

In any case a business like Tom Tom will or should have as a practic checked out "prior art" to avoid such an eventuality.

Take the snowboard patent(s). Back in the 80s/90s I discovered a potential "prior art" - i.e already invented case. I didn't complain as it wasn't my issue. The inventor(s) no doubt did nicely. Then again those who paid the royalities could do what MS is doing and get a refund but they have to know what I know to invalidate the patent(s)first.

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