According to the latest foreign media reports, apple plans for Siri speech assistant apply for patent protection, which means that the apple will involved in technology research and Siri all return to account, do not give rivals leave imitation, plagiarism patent space.
In the apple to the United States patent and trademark office in the patent application documents submitted, Siri known as "intelligence, automation assistant" name. Apple in the patent application documents spare no effort to describe the r&d Siri involved in the process of all intellectual property rights, showed its best efforts to fight for the patent determination.
In some patent law experts and market analysts view, apple again show the patent protection areas of "extreme" style of work, the company tried to emphasize the United States patent and trademark office: people can freely and Siri dialogue, not just a simple voice commands.
But in fact, apple to Siri position is: in the information search, in order to improve the user satisfaction speech assistant. Apple in the patent application documents submitted wrote: "many users difficult to find electronic equipment have the strong search function and information ability, which can cause in their search for information in the process of forced to receive frustration, or can't through the effective way to gain desired Samsung Accessories."
Have analysis worry, apple the move will cause more in the future patent disputes. But look, except for Siri apply for patent protection, apple is no other better way to put an end to patent plagiarism event occurs. As for whether this will cause a chain in the patent field of bad effect, or left to the facts to test cheap samsung galaxy note cases.
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