<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>In principle we have to fight this, as this is what OSGeo software is capable of from a very long time.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Ravi Kumar</span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, December 21, 2013 10:08 PM, Carl Reed <creed@opengeospatial.org> wrote:<br>
</font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">Venka -<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I posted a blog response on:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/5658/interactive-map-is-apple-trying-to-patent-40-year-old-gis-methods-patent-ap" target="_blank">http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/5658/interactive-map-is-apple-trying-to-patent-40-year-old-gis-methods-patent-ap</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Potential prior art goes back to the very early days of interactive GIS <br clear="none">applications - as early as the mid to late 1970's. I have user manuals and <br clear="none">design documents for some of these early systems! Similar potential prior <br clear="none">art for web deployed apps dates to 1993. In 2002 or so the OGC compiled an <br clear="none">extensive list of potential prior art related to web mapping. I published an <br clear="none">article in GIM magazine in 2003 or
so.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Cheers<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Carl<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-----Original Message----- <br clear="none">From: Venkatesh Raghavan<br clear="none">Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 11:05 PM<br clear="none">To: OSGeo Discussions ; OSGeo-Board<br clear="none">Subject: [Board] About "Interactive Map" patent application by Apple Inc.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Dear All,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I think the OSGeo should express strong objection to the "Interactive Map"<br clear="none">patent filed by Apple on 17 Dec 2012 [1]. The contents of the patent [1]<br clear="none">describe features that OSGeo software already provides for over a decade.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Best<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Venka<br clear="none"><br clear="none">[1]<br clear="none"><a shape="rect"
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