{"id":19,"date":"2005-08-31T09:43:28","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T04:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magiclamp.org\/?p=19"},"modified":"2005-08-31T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T04:13:28","slug":"patent-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/index.php\/2005\/08\/31\/patent-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Patent crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a flurry of news on the technology patent front in the last day or two.  First, <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/25ea78bc-19a7-11da-804e-00000e2511c8.html\"><br \/>\nCreative is accusing Apple of an iPod patent breach<\/a>, saying that the iPod&#8217;s user interface violates a patent that Creative has. <\/p>\n<p>\nThen comes the news that Nintendo has patented the <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/08\/30\/1645253&#038;tid=155&#038;tid=234&#038;tid=10\">Sanity system for games<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTHEN there&#8217;s news that even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entry\/1234000437056601\/\"><br \/>\nringtones can be patented<\/a>!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThings have gone absolutely nuts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/\">The Financial Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/\">Engadget<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a flurry of news on the technology patent front in the last day or two. 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