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seems the relevant patent is http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...

patented by this guy https://www.intellectualventures.com/buzz/insights/inventor-...

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It seems that the person in question was #2 on the "patent trolls top list" in 2016

https://www.rpxcorp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/t...

Heh, it seems like being #2 on a scumbag top list is the worst place you can be; you don't even get to claim you're the biggest scumbag around.

I read a little bit of it and started to wonder how iCloud isn’t prior art. Then I noticed that there’s a prior patent that’s nearly the same, but filed many years earlier (8437797) and they’ve used it to file against Apple and many others... Panasonic, Motorola, Netgear, etc. http://npe.law.stanford.edu/patent/8437797

Here is what I don't understand about this: where is innovation in this patent? It seems like some of the digital photo frames could be used as a prior art.

As an outsider it looks to me that the US patent system is seriously limiting your innovation.

Few people around here won't think that software patents (at least) are a cancer upon society, draining resources and wasting everyone's time.

Filed first in 2012. I bet theres plenty of prior art. And if that programs from before.... Whoops!

Reminds me of the patent / copyright troll from Silicon Valley. But worse, this guy "invents" things that already exist. I wish we could ban people (and their companies) from owning patents if they are found to be abusing the patenting system purely to not innovate but even worse they financially stall nonprofits who do innovate. Like seriously.

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