Microsoft, Google Sued Over 3-D Mapping Technology

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A Louisiana based company is suing Microsoft, Google and AOL for patent infringement on the company’s technology. Transcenic, Inc. is a motion picture and video production company dealing in 3-D technology. The suit alleges the three companies’ misused 3-D image capturing software without permission or compensation.

Both Google and Microsoft have placed “infringing systems into action or service” and obtain “beneficial use” of those systems, lawyers for Transcenic said in the suit.
 
i realize im being nit-picky here but...

....mapqwest?

c'mon bloomberg.... you should be able to pay some flunky to check stuff like that before posting... shouldnt you?
 
AOL!? Does the trailer they are operating out of still have a website? Do they do a map of the trailer park or something so the 3 remaining employees can still find them? :confused:
 
3D maps = 3D movies?

These patent lawsuits are always great.
 
If it wasn't for patents where else would all the big companies steal their ideas?

Steal ideas from patents? Hardly. Nobody reads patents because it is *cheaper* not to. That is largely why patents are broken. Very, very few ideas in the software patent world is original anyway. The entire purpose of patents doesn't even work for software, software patents need to just go away. Besides, patents are supposed to be an *implementation*, not an *idea*.
 
Steal ideas from patents? Hardly. Nobody reads patents because it is *cheaper* not to. That is largely why patents are broken. Very, very few ideas in the software patent world is original anyway. The entire purpose of patents doesn't even work for software, software patents need to just go away. Besides, patents are supposed to be an *implementation*, not an *idea*.

Agreed. Right now it's easy to sue anybody over some slight variance of an idea that they have patented. I mean it's easy to know that not everybody knows that thing is patented and basically it just makes the system worthless if they don't read up on the patents and stuff.

So why does all the suing exists inside this complicated software patent system?
 
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