[OSGeo-Discuss] About "Interactive Map" patent application by Apple Inc.

[Peter Baumann]

Hi Carl, George,

this should be of interest to OGC as well IMHO. It might be that they patent WMS 
facets.

best,
Peter


On 12/21/2013 07:05 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> 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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