Read more.Busy week for Apple, Motorola, Samsung and the world's legal systems.
Read more.Busy week for Apple, Motorola, Samsung and the world's legal systems.
I've no doubt all of these software patents are funding a whole section of law firms, but honestly can we please do away with them? You should be able to copy ideas and implement your own system, you should not be able to copy systems. The best implementations with reap the best rewards, simple as that.
As aidanjt says, it's nothing but trolling, trolling that's made entirely to hold back competitors and so, hold back progress.
I've got to wonder though (as I always seem to with this type of thing that seems so blatantly flawed), am I missing something? Who gains from such enforceable restrictions?
*punches air*
YES
As much as I hate all this patent BS, Apple started throwing it's weight around and the others have been dragged into it by force.
Perhaps a few more major loses for Apple and they may start playing nice like everyone else was doing before Apple decided they should be the only people allowed to make smart phones and tablet pcs!
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I can't agree with you more. I work in the industry and all this patent litigation is throttling it. I find Apple and Apple-fan-boy stance totally amazing. It's as if only Apple invent mobile device tech, even though they only started making phones 20 years after GSM hit the scene. OK, they have a long history of mobile devices, but complaining when they get his with patent litigation themselves is just hypocritical!
It's about time they stopped patenting everything and anything remotely relevant, and started considering that they are in a large industry that they shouldn't want to control.
Right, I'm off to the patent office with an invention to open portals.... I'm gonna call it a "door handle".
MaddAussie (03-02-2012),Saracen (04-02-2012)
I'd like to say that I feel sorry for Apple, but in all conscience I don't. As "shaithis" quite correctly says, folks seemed happy to "play nice" for the most part. To be honest I even include Microsoft's "Android Tax" in that...., for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
No what really got my goat was that Apple's attitude was/is "you're a threat, we'll sue, you'll stop making X" - never any suggestion of "we (Apple) will license our patent to you". So personally speaking Apple using patents the way they do, as "competition poison", is completely immoral - I thought patents were there to allow an innovator to get adequate compensation for their innovation, not to just prevent anyone else who chooses to do something similar from doing it. As a colleague of mine just said "If you build a better mousetrap, then Apple will trademark mice"
As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter whether iPad3 and/or iPhone5 are technical tour-de-force's, while the company behind those products continues with the sulky toddler approach then I'll take my meagre business elsewhere.
Apple had it coming to them, if you're going throw frivolous lawsuits about because a competitors product looks like your own you'd better be sure that your own house is in order first.
It would seem the '3G' part of apples recent devices infringe patents both from Moto and Samsung, just because both patents fall under 'fair and reasonable use licensing' doesn't mean you can use them without paying for them and then go crying to the EU that they want to much money for it.
Apple have knowingly broken these patents as both companies offered to license them the tech but they refused to pay and continued anyway.
I agree, Apple should have expected a backlash from a company with a lot more solid ground int he industry they are in and its finally happened. I cant see this changing a damn thing though, apple will just fight fire with more fire.
They refuse to co-exist with android for some barmy reason. The way i see it, android drives them to develop better and more advanced devices and their rather smug elitist approach to advertising means people will continue buying them. Apples market share might battle it out with android but in the whole, apple do the best out of the current eco-system. Dont they?
Perhaps an auto-troll app or widget?![]()
Shooty* (04-02-2012)
Apple deserve what they get TBH, they started this whole fiasco and I hope they get burned for it.
I don't quite understand this though:
Does that mean Apple can continue to use it unless Motorola pay someone £83 million? Seems oddAt this stage the iCloud permanent injunction is "preliminarily enforceable", meaning that it is open to appeal, however Motorola may seek to enforce the injunction if it's willing to place forwards an £83 million bond.![]()
My photos aren't uploading into the iCloud on my phone anymore.
I'm usually able to pull them straight down within about 30s of taking it, on my PC or MacBook, but they're not going up..
Does anyone know if the iCloud is down already?
Oh, you mean something like:
Patent trolling? ... There's an app for that (tm) Apple Computer Inc 2009 (according to http://www.trademarkia.com/theres-an...-77980556.html)
Nope, going to sell my design to Apple - hopefully they'll go with my name suggestion too ... iOpen.
Then I'm going to use my license money to design a follow up - with a lock this time ... iClose2.
Looks like Apple have now got this temporarily over turned.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16877438
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