In the MacGuardians forum, the patent attorney speaks grandly about how nice it is when his assessment—that patents are there for everyone, small and large companies alike—is confirmed. However, the Heise article mentions something about how the small company only achieved success (before that it was nearly bankrupt) after it teamed up with SportFive, an agency from the RTL-Bertelsmann group. But RTL-Bertelsmann is certainly no small company.
Aside from that: I also find the patent itself rather questionable, because it does nothing other than translate the ancient concept of faxback machines to mobile phones.
Send a number code to a central hub and send something else back. Evaluate which number codes you received. Incredible creative height—you couldn't possibly come up with something like that without being a genius.
And what do we learn from this: Patent attorneys see the world with blinders on. And patents are simply not for everyone—because if they were, the student wouldn't have needed help from RTL-Bertelsmann ...
The original article can be found at MacGuardians.