Apple's dock patent
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,434,177.PN.&OS=PN/7,434,177&RS=PN/7,434,177
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Just picked up this from a Link at gizmodo, after 9 years since the applcation, apple have been awarded a patent for software - I was lead to believe was invented by IBM?! (Er, can't find the article I read that in right now)
Any ideas on what this could mean for object dock, rocket dock or any others.
Just to throw in my opinion, firstly I am getting fed up by the mockery of the US patent system and it's international implications (UK here), also of apple and there "evil empire" tactics (much like a 90's MS) and sick of seeing them get away with it since they're not seen as a monopoly.