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Monday, June 26. 2006

Garmin's New Patent

The Kansas City Business Journal notes Garmin's latest patent: Methods and systems to interface navigation operations. It allows developers (I think) "to rapidly permit any desired customization of software applications" on navigation devices. The article goes on to note that Garmin has an open API for its GPS-enabled iQue and may one day open APIs for its in car navigation devices.

Does this patent make it difficult for there to be a standard interface that might support many company's nav systems?

Posted by Adena Schutzberg at 07:24 | Comments (2) | Trackback (1) | Bookmark and Share

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This seems to me to fall into the "obvious to current practitioners" category that is well explained in this TechDirt article about a Supreme Court case: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060626/1227245.shtml
#1 Allan Doyle (Link) on 2006-06-27 05:27 (Reply)
More on the court case, and the Supreme Court's agreement to take up the case is here:
http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-6087946.html?part=rss&tag=6087946&subj=news
#2 Adena Schutzberg (Link) on 2006-06-27 12:09 (Reply)

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