Will Prior Art Doom Apple’s Anti-Theft iPhone Patent?
There’s a bit of commotion with a new patent request by Apple over on Slashdottoday. The claim is that Apple is creating a new patent to stop jailbreaking.
About a month ago, we reported that a review of the DMCA put forth the possibility of jailbreaking ones phone without breaking anti-circumvention laws (though this is under a set of specific circumstances). A court also ruled that the act of circumvention in and of itself does not constitute infringement.
