Re: Gotta love Apple.
@ Alien8n, I've got to agree with you there. I'll even go so far as to say there's probably no lack of shady individuals who would be more than happy to "help" the little guy with his patent while shuffling the key bits of it through a back channel network to folks willing to pay top dollar and who can file it in an hour while the little guy is being "helped" for two months at the low, low price of five or ten grand.
I don't even want to get started on how much corporate IP policy hinders all sorts of creativity between signing over IP rights to anything and everything. My first employer was so bad even the receptionist had to sign the contract which I later thought was ridiculous. The only excuse I had was that I started as an intern and was honored when they asked to sign me on before I had graduated college but I'm glad I didn't make that mistake twice.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
