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What happens when your primary business partner also "patents" one of your ideas? Well, FutureTap finally got a response in the ongoing "PatentGate" surrounding their Where To? app from Apple.
If you'll recall, Apple had patented an application quite eerily similar to FutureTap's Where To? which included a drawing quite similar to the main screen of Where To? but apparently that's about where the similarity ended.
Anand Sethuraman, Senior Patent Counsel with Apple, came back with the following response:
"As discussed, Apple is contemplating steps to attribute the screenshot in the patent application to FutureTap. The patent application in question does not claim as inventive the pictured user interface nor the general concept of an integrated travel services application. We appreciate your taking time out to discuss the matter and will keep you updated."
FutureTap seemed to accept Apple's statement and is planning to move forward. So there you have it!
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August 12, 2010 at 6:23am
Hmmm, wonder if Bruce Sewell, apples new counsel, who left Intel is attempting to claim he resolved the REAL PATENTGATE. Right prior to his jumping from Intel, Sewell was notified of his involvement in the REAL PATENTGATE unfolding for a Trillion Dollar Heist of Intellectual Property from Iviewit Technologies and me, inventor, Eliot Bernstein. See
http://www.brucesewell.com/2010/03/eliot-bernstein-of-iviewit-technologies_16.htmland
SEC Complaint @
https://docs.google.com/View?id=dgvpzjzw_9ghxg4km9
Apple too owes massive royalties to the iviewit inventors.
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