Theodp writes "Among the new iOS 5 lineaments is Reminders, which Apple explains this way: 'Say you need to retain to pick up milk during your next grocery trip. Since Reminders can be part based, you'll get an alert as soon as you pull into the boutique parking lot.' But does Reminders infringe on a newly-granted patent to Amazon for whereabouts
notes:a location is a place Aware Reminders, which covers the use of site based reminders to remind a user 'to booty* certain items such as, for example, as milk, bread, and eggs'? Or could Reminders run afoul of Google's new patent for Geocoding individual Information, which covers triggering a voice expression or making a computing device vibrate when a user approaches a locus if 'one of the user's events is a task to pick up milk and bread'? Not to be left out of the 'Got Milk?' patent race, Apple also has a patent pending for micro* Systems and Methods for Collecting, Associating, and/or Retrieving Data, which covers if a sign to a user whose 'to do' list includes 'get milk' when the user's site matches 'a store that sells the item "milk."' (Continues, below.)

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