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Apple reassures FutureTap: “We’re not making a patent claim on your work”

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

Remember the story about how Apple was stealing a third-party app developer’s work and patenting it? At the time, I explained in a long post that the patent was nothing to do with FutureTap’s excellent WhereTo? application. And, after consulting … Continue reading →

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No, Apple isn’t patenting developers’ work. But it still has a bigger problem

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

Patents are hard to understand. If any government wants to reduce the costs of running a business quickly and easily, it should revamp the system of patents to make them easy for people who aren’t lawyers to read, and harder … Continue reading →

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