iPhone Winterboarder » Apple Pattent Blunder http://winterboarder.com Where Art Meets iPhone Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:34:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Apple Uses Jailbroken iPhone in Pattent Application http://winterboarder.com/2009/03/apple-uses-jailbroken-iphone-in-pattent-application/ http://winterboarder.com/2009/03/apple-uses-jailbroken-iphone-in-pattent-application/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:48:31 +0000 Winterboarder http://winterboarder.com/?p=538
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]]> In a latest gaffe, Apple’s patent lawyers file the patent  for the iPhone biometric security patent application with the US Patent & Trademark Office, using illustrations of a jailbroken iPhone.

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These illustration clearly show the apps only available by jailbreaking the device, such as  Installer.app, SMBPrefs, Mobile Terminal, Customize, and the iWood Realize theme from the iSpazio repository.

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Filings like this would explain why Apple Inc. keeps getting sued over copyrights and pattent infringement.  Their R&D department is not as smart as it is assumed. In fact this only shows Apple ripping off the independent developers and sell it as their own patents.  Since Terminal and other applications apear in a patent filing they can later claim ownership, if far in the future they might get sued over it.

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US PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE


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