[Board] About "Interactive Map" patent application by Apple Inc.

[Carl Reed]

Venka -

I posted a blog response on:

http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/5658/interactive-map-is-apple-trying-to-patent-40-year-old-gis-methods-patent-ap

Potential prior art goes back to the very early days of interactive GIS 
applications - as early as the mid to late 1970's. I have user manuals and 
design documents for some of these early systems! Similar potential prior 
art for web deployed apps dates to 1993. In 2002 or so the OGC compiled an 
extensive list of potential prior art related to web mapping. I published an 
article in GIM magazine in 2003 or so.

Cheers

Carl


-----Original Message----- 
From: Venkatesh Raghavan
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 11:05 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions ; OSGeo-Board
Subject: [Board] About "Interactive Map" patent application by Apple Inc.

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?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=2&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=%28715%2F771.CCLS.+AND+20131219.PD.%29&OS=ccl/715/771+and+pd/12/19/2013&RS=%28CCL/715/771+AND+PD/20131219%29
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