04-19-2006, 03:04 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 735
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Some of you have made the statement that the letter is in crayon thus it is clearly from a child so cut some slack etc.
Nevertheless, you also know that patent and intellectual property lawsuits are rampant.
As in my original post, I outlined an example where one can patent something (implied), write something in crayon as if it was from a child, send it to a company where the patent may (or most likely will) be used, wait for their reply saying "thanks for your feedback, we will think about it", wait for said company incorporate ideas related to patent, ???, profit!
How do you protect oneself from that? What will you do when you get hit with such a lawsuit?
You may argue that surely judges and juries won't buy such tenuous reasoning made by those lawyers! Well, stranger things have happened.
I think there is enough blame to go around - greedy patent profiteers, corrupt legal system, boorish corporate PR and legal dept, sensationalist journalists, thin-skinned Americans, back-seat drivers like posters on this forum  - the list goes on. The buck does not stop at just Apple.
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