{"id":492861,"date":"2010-03-30T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100329\/1829218776.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-30T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T03:58:00","slug":"microsoft-sued-over-buy-from-fm-zune-feature-despite-it-functioning-differently-than-the-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/492861","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Sued Over Buy From FM Zune Feature, Despite It Functioning Differently Than The Patent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technically, we’re told, patents only are supposed to apply to specific inventions, and not general ideas. It doesn’t always work that way in practice, of course. AdamR<\/a> points us to a lawsuit filed by some guy against Microsoft, claiming patent infringement in Zune’s “Buy from FM” feature<\/a> that lets you buy a song that you hear over FM radio. The guy is claiming willful infringement and demanding treble damages, because he apparently wrote Microsoft a letter back in 2006. Of course, there appears to be a pretty big problem with the claim, in that the patents in question (6,463,469<\/a> and 6,473,792<\/a>) appear to describe a process of unlocking music already found on a local harddrive — which is not how the Zune’s feature works.<\/p>\n

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Technically, we’re told, patents only are supposed to apply to specific inventions, and not general ideas. It doesn’t always work that way in practice, of course. AdamR points us to a lawsuit filed by some guy against Microsoft, claiming patent infringement in Zune’s “Buy from FM” feature that lets you buy a song that you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}