Fighting Ridiculous Patents
So it seems Apple is trying to patent the ability to copy-and-paste metadata with content. The application talks about it in the context of citations, but the implications are broader it seems to me.
What’s even more infuriating is that I’ve talked about some of these very ideas on this blog, and also in private conversations with people at Apple. For them to implement such a system is one thing, but to try to patent it so that nobody else can? That’s another matter entirely, and bothers me enough that I’ve already started to look into fighting it.
Anyone know of any prior art in this area?
[...] I mentioned previously that I had started looking into how I might be able to challenge an Apple patent application before it was reviewed. It turns out this is not so easy; the patent office will actually refuse to look at public commentary! Somehow that seems deeply perverse. [...]