I'd be interested in reading more about this patent in depth.

It sounds like they patented speakers on the side of the phone for music purposes, not the earpiece itself.

And I'd be curious to know how long they were working on this patent - it can sometimes take several years to get a patent approved, and MP3 phones really haven't been around more than a few years.

 

good thing I already have my KRZR then.

 

Damn I gueses people will just have to own an MP3 Player AND a phone, oh their poor Backpacks/Purses/Pockets. Lazy fuckers..... (I never understood the need to own an "all in 1" device, it's why I have a phone, an iPod AND a DS.)

 

Oh, ok then... I no longer wish to benefit manking with a low left hand corner speaker on a phone.




This just in.

Alexander Graham Bell resurrected from the dead and is now suing everyone on the planet who ever made a phone.

 

Man I need to think of something that will probably be popular in the future but i need to patent it NOW! or I could squat on a few potentialily desirable urls.
In this world it seems like its
Step 1: evil under handedry
Step 2: ???
Step 3: profit

 

damn that sucks.

they shouldn't be able to get royalties from past stuff. It should start from the day they got the patent (which was recently)

 

This seems like further proof that the patent system is broken and needs total reform.

Also, Im glad this is happening to MP3 phones. I hate it when people play songs on those things in public. It sounds shitty, and its just plain annoying.

 

Microsoft Patents Ones And Zeroes

Seriously, though, these companies are patent farms. The system really does need to be overhauled--I read a quote recently from HP admitting that they patent every widget and process they can think of, not to attack other companies, but to use as leverage if someone tries something like this. But that doesn't work with these little guys.

Blackberry even went through this--RIM was sued by NTP, which was basically a bunch of lawyers and some wireless protocol patents they bought from some dead guy's widow. And they went for the jugular, damn near shut down Blackberries.

 

  I love The Onion.

 

Waits to see who steals that for their avatar. I would, but there is a bit of an uncomfortable feeling in knowing I'm just hopping on the band wagon.

 

Bandwagon or not, I don't think I'd like to see that one out there - Op's "SpartaJux" is even a bit much for me, but at least I'm a man in that one and not a drag queen.

 

We could change that Sugah..... *finds a pick of Hugo Weaving from Priscilla and opens Photoshop*

 

You have my permission to kill anybody that actually uses it.

 

I see what they did there.

 

I'm going to patent the process in which people are lame on the internet and sue anyone who infringes, hence giving me enougth money to buy the world and save me the effort of conquering througth conventional means.