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Pick Your Brain: Any prior art on Apple's patent application on wifi ordering by iPhone?

By Pamela Jones et al.

We have another request to pick your brains regarding prior art. I guess I should set up a new subcategory just for prior art searching. It looks like we'll be doing more and more of it. This time, the request is regarding the new patent application that Apple announced for wifi purchases over an iPhone. Journalist John Oram believes he's found someone who has some prior art. Can you please take a look and if you know of other examples, comment on them here?

The article shows me why education about patents and the patent process is important, as I see some misunderstanding about how it works. As you'll see, the article includes a complaint about the USPTO, that when someone with prior art to offer contacted the USPTO, he was more or less turned away. There's a reason for that, and the explanation will help you to understand the purpose for setting up the Peer to Patent project.

Full post as published by Groklaw on January 04, 2008 (boomark / email).