Google, Microsoft, Apple sued over thumbnails and icon patent
On Wednesday, a networking company based in Michigan filed a lawsuit against Google, Microsoft, and Apple for a patent violation over the use of document-preview icons and thumbnails in operating systems.
The patent covers the navigation and access of files based on representational thumbnails witch Cygnus Systems describes as “methods and systems for accessing one or more computer files via a graphical icon, wherein the graphical icon includes an image of a selected portion or portions of one or more computer files.”
Cygnus is targeting Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s Vista and Internet Explorer 8, and Apple’s iPhone, Safari, and Mac OS X as patent infringers. but is also stating that these big three may not be the only companies it goes after.
Cygnus is asking not only for general damage compensation, but retroactive money going back to the beginning of patent infringement, however, this lawsuit may not get very far considering the caliber of companies (and their defensive teams) that Cygnus has chosen to pursue.
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