Forgot your password?  + - City Caller ID hit with Patent
Infringement 3  Submitted by pyr02k1 pyr02k1 writes "The
developer of a free Android application that looks up a callers
city location by the phone number is being threatened with
Patent Infringement by Cequint. The software in question does a
simple lookup by the incoming numbers zip code to tell where the
caller is located. Cequint claims to hold 2 patents on the
ability to perform the action in question, despite the
information in question being freely available information. The
City Caller ID application has since been pulled from the
Android Marketplace. The Developers post is located at
http://techdirt.com/blog.php?company=cequint&edition=techdirt
and the patents are
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=ZWUKAAAAEBAJ&dq=6353664
and
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=QIR_AAAAEBAJ&dq=7200212
... when something like this happens, where can a small
developer turn?"  Comment: Re:Woohoo GOOGLE! (Score 4,
Insightful) 218  by pyr02k1 (#31197330) Att