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

[Jon Scarbrough]

I concur 100%. Interestingly, Jaron Waldman is listed as one of the 
inventors. His company, Placebase, was purchased by Apple a few years 
ago. Placebase was using the old KaMap libraries with heavy 
modifications to them in the creation of their product.

After reading the patent application claims, it is clear that what is 
described has been in place for numerous years by a variety of open 
source projects. I don't see any new invention.

Best regards,

Jon Scarbrough
VP Technology
Where2GetIt.com

On 12/21/2013 12:05 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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