Kyler, what you do now is to go to Control Vision and tell them to pay
you, based on the existence of prior art. If they refuse, threaten to
send your info to the USPTO and request a patent review. And then do it.
There's far too much of this stuff going on.

Kyler Laird wrote:
I hate software patents. They *really* burn me when they're on things that
I've already discussed and planned to do. Here's one.
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#188748

Any GPS can tell you where you are but Control Vision's Anywhere
Map system tells you where you should be in case your engine quits.
Anywhere Map's "cones of safety" feature has now been patented and
it falls under the category of "why didn't I think of that?"

Gosh, yes. Why wouldn't anyone else have thought of that?
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...cf3e00bc8003fd

--kyler