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A company that makes specialist talking tablet computers for speech-disabled children has mounted a patent lawsuit which seems set to kill off an iPad app that does the same thing for a tenth of the price. The firm is making no commitment to provide replacement affordable software for consumer devices. Prentke Romich's …

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: +1 for David W.'s monologue

      "David W.'s monologue"

      Yeah, I have a tendency to do that. It's the problem with being able to type very fast. I think too much, I think too fast, I type too fast, and I type too much.

      When I'm very wealthy, I'll hire a personal editor, who will use a computer beside mine to shorten my Reg posts.

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        Re: +1 for David W.'s monologue

        Don't forget the PA as well, David.

        Your points were valid.

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  2. Jonathan Richards 1
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    The point of the patent system

    @Chris, back a page, and several others.

    I think people believe the point of the patent system is to arrange a revenue stream for inventors. It's not. Repeat: that's NOT why the state grants you a monopoly on the practice of your invention.

    The state grants you that monopoly in return for full disclosure of your invention. That's where the benefits of patents are. We're meant to learn from them. Indeed patent lawyers speak of patents "teaching" such and such an invention.

    Revenue from licensing is incidental to the purpose of patents: they're meant to foster progress.

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    1. tybalt
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      Re: The point of the patent system

      Have you perhaps considered that the two aims are not incompatible?

      The patent system is intended to both reward innovation by allowing exclusivity for a limited time, and to ensure that innovations are made available by requiring a disclosure that enables others to work the invention after the end of the limited time.

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  3. wahwahwahwah
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    Captain Blood

    The video game Captain Blood from 1988 has a symbol based keyboard communicating meaning to aliens:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Blood_(video_game)

    Is that prior art?

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