I have a guest post today over at TechFlash about Apple’s recent rejection of my iPhone programmer’s calculator app, Calc 0×0. In rejecting my app submission, Apple’s review team objected to my use of a generic keyword (“bitwise”) to describe a prominent feature of the app (bitwise operations). According to Apple, I cannot use this term [...]
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Nit Picking for $2M
This is not strictly patent related, except that it highlights the importance of careful drafting. As illustrated by this cautionary tale, imprecise language can occasionally come back with a vengeance to bite you and/or your client.
The Globe and Mail reports on “the most costly piece of punctuation in Canada,” in which one ambiguously drafted clause costs Rogers Communications over $2M in a contract dispute. (Actually, the culprit is not exactly the punctuation per se, but rather a poorly drafted sentence.)