Comments on: Judge won't block distribution of Google Earth

Court rejects request for injunction against the popular 3D mapping program, which is the subject of a patent lawsuit.

[ballssalty]

Another stupid patent

Patents are supposed to be granted for new inventions. This is neither new or an invention. Rendering of 3D landscapes has existed for decades. This is nothing new, just applying an existing technology to the map of the earth. That is not an invention. And the software to do it is not an invention.

[gggg sssss]

1492

Didn't Christopher columbus develop a way of determining that the earth was 3 dimensional - not flat, a few years ago? And didn't he render a drawing of that? Prior art?

[catch23]

No, that is a myth

No one (well, few) in the middle ages or 1492 thought the world was flat

http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods46.html

Columbus knew the world was round, just mis-estimated the size. A good thing for him that the Americas were between him and India.

[baswwe]

microsoft flight simulator

aren't you flyign over land?

[J.G.]

Not grounds for an injunction

If Google Earth was going to do Skyline harm that required an immediate remedy that would have already happened.