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Spritz forces takedown of Spree bookmarklet citing patents

32 点作者 technel超过 10 年前

8 条评论

driverdan超过 10 年前
Here&#x27;s the patent: <a href="https://www.google.com/patents/WO2014011884A1?cl=en&amp;dq=WO+2014-011884&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=oZ2PU8n9OsiLqAbesYKgAQ&amp;ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;patents&#x2F;WO2014011884A1?cl=en&amp;dq=WO+20...</a><p>It&#x27;s pretty ridiculous. It&#x27;s very obtusely written and clearly cites work from others as the basis for their technique (primarily in description paragraphs 1-6). Then in paragraph 7 they claim &quot;None of the previous research on word recognition has been applied to RSVP.&quot;
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jawns超过 10 年前
I don&#x27;t think anybody familiar with the two services had any doubt that this would happen, eventually.<p>Squirt.io is another service that does the same thing as Spree, and I can&#x27;t imagine that it won&#x27;t soon be in Spritz&#x27;s crosshairs as well -- especially since in its Acknowledgements section, the first to be credited is &quot;Spritz Inc, the company whose patents are pending.&quot;<p>One thing I&#x27;m curious about is whether leaving the code publicly accessible, but in a &quot;commented out&quot; state, ostensibly rendering the program non-functional, is sufficient.<p>Like, suppose I wrote a small open-source text editor whose default text upon startup is the entirety of &quot;Fifty Shades of Grey.&quot; And E.L. James&#x27; people contact me and say, &quot;Hey, you can&#x27;t do that. E.L. James holds the copyright to that text.&quot; If I merely comment out the text, rather than wipe it from the source code, have I really fulfilled my responsibility to not infringe on James&#x27; copyright?
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matznerd超过 10 年前
I really like the Spritz-style technology, which allows me to read with high retention at 750+ WPM and skim casually at 900+ WPM, up from around 575 WPM and 700 WPM respectively, with other technologies.<p>I don&#x27;t like to see them stopping open source versions, but at the same time they have little else to protect their algorithm, which brought some significant advances in the speed reading (RSVP) space that hadn&#x27;t changed for years.<p>As screens get smaller with devices like smartwatches, this type of technology becomes even more important and may even be a requirement for reading text longer than a few sentences on such a small screen.
pollen23超过 10 年前
Am I the only one who doesn&#x27;t see what&#x27;s so innovative about Spritz? About ten years ago or so, when people didn&#x27;t create startups for every little side-project they had, there were speed reading java applets that did just about the exact same thing as Spritz.
leohutson超过 10 年前
Anyone know of an alternative to github that is hosted somewhere that doesn&#x27;t recognise software patents?
Apofis超过 10 年前
I just realized that this tech would be perfect for Smart Watches.
aikah超过 10 年前
Sorry but what is it about for people who know neither Spree or Spritz, what patent did Spree violate( ELI5,tried to read the paper but did understand nothing).
Kiro超过 10 年前
I&#x27;m building a Spritz-like application but I don&#x27;t live in the US so the patent doesn&#x27;t apply. Is there anything else I should be worried about?
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