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Strava sues Garmin over alleged patent infringement
Submitted 3 weeks ago by SteevyT@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.theverge.com/news/790922/strava-garmin-patent-infringement-lawsuit
Submitted 3 weeks ago by SteevyT@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.theverge.com/news/790922/strava-garmin-patent-infringement-lawsuit
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
FFS. How are these ideas remotely patentable in the first place? Software patents are pure dogshit.
SteevyT@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Heatmaps is have no clue, and hilariously enough, Garmin had heatmaps before Strava.
The segments one actually has some innovative ideas when I read the claims, but they filed for it multiple years after they offered it to the public so I have no clue how that got that patent either.
irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Yeah, software patents in the US especially, have become a way for companies to either kill competition, or make buying up ridiculous patents and suing for infringement their primary source of income.
Primary issue is the patent office has few officers that are technical enough to understand the overlap of the specific industry and software. So, they tend to just allow anything, especially from larger companies that they’re told to assume have the expertise if they don’t since their load is too large to have time to learn new stuff and truly research if something is obvious or not.