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About Matt Macari

Matt Macari is a writer at The Verge, on issues where technology and law intersect. Matt's a lover of technology, who happens also to be a patent attorney.

Matt lives in the Phoenix area with his wife, son and mischievous cat. He is a registered attorney in Arizona, Minnesota, and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Matt Macari

On The Verge since Oct 28, 2011

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Yes, that can be a defense raised in litigation. It’s the equitable principle of “laches.” Generally, the presumption of laches arises when more than 6 years has passed from the time the patent owner knew of the infringement and the time he/she filed suit.

about 9 hours ago on Kim Dotcom accuses Google, Facebook, and Twitter of violating his two-step security patent
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I agree it’s clever. I hate it when I have to tap a refresh icon. Pull-to-refresh seems more natural.

It’s worth noting that Apple had very broad disclosure and coverage of this type of feature in it’s “bounce-back” patent applications (going back to 2007), but missed the mark by not mentioning that the method could be used to refresh. Everything was there except for that important detail. There’s a patent attorney and engineer somewhere in Cupertino experiencing some regret.

2 days ago on Twitter granted patent on pull-to-refresh, promises to only use it defensively 1 reply
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The broadest claim in this Twitter patent (claim 1) covers at least the first three of those methods.

2 days ago on Twitter granted patent on pull-to-refresh, promises to only use it defensively