Once again, the actual code/implementation should be patented not the general idea. If a kid can code "tap to zoom" or "slide to unlock" in his basement in a few days, it should not be patented. Retarded.
That is the territory of copyrights, not patents. The courts allowed reverse engineering of the IBM Bios system for goodness sake and that is OBVIOUS cloning of the technology, but as long as they didn't COPY the code, it was allowed because there is more than one way to skin a cat!
All this crap would be like Ford trying to sue all the other car companies because they also use assembly lines when Ford used it first for cars. There are so many products that look "similar" because they are similar in nature. All cars are similar, all microwaves are similar, most cell phones were similar, etc. It's the individual products' merits that count, not the similarity of the type of product. In that regard, Apple SHOULD be competing on the merits of its iPad, iPhone, etc., not WHINING IN COURT that Samsung is ALSO selling a 'similar' tablet computer. Apple did not invent the tablet for god's sake! They existed well before the iPad came out. They are simply popular off the iPhone's existing App library, etc.
Saying Samsung's products look similar to the iPad is like saying Windows looks similar to OSX (or look at Linux; they have themes to look like either one). Big Deal. Is the underlying operating system the same? NO. Is the code the same? NO. Then they have NO CASE. All software patents are ridiculous as software is protected by copyright and that is sufficient for them as a judge recently ruled.
SCREW these sue happy loser companies. Let them compete on merit like Capitalism meant them to, not suing like pissy little lawyers who purposely write everything in "lawyer speak" so you have to pay them hundreds of dollars an hour to interpret their own BS in court and small companies go out of business because they can't afford the legal costs, not because they were wrong. Lawyers should be abolished from the Earth. They're greedy scum bags that are nothing more than glorified blue collared THIEVES whose job is to take what they didn't earn and what isn't theirs through loop holes and other shady practices. I know this first hand. The world would be better off without them and simpler laws that an average person could defend themselves against. There should be no need for a lawyer EVER on this planet. It's like saying there's a need for THIEVES on this planet. Bullcrap. Either you are guilty or you are not guilty. Technicalities and loop holes are the territory of people trying to evade the law, not follow it. Justice should be about finding out whether a person did the crime, not who can afford the better lawyer (which seems to be all too often who wins court cases which explains the multitudes of people being released from prison on DNA cases these days and makes you wonder exactly how many cases were correct to begin with).
People need to stand up against bad laws passed by crooked politicians and take their countries back from the SCUM BAG THIEVES that didn't represent them in good faith. The system needs overhauled.
The bottom line is if Samsung didn't use Apple's code, they didn't do anything wrong. Everything else is a crock (especially software patents which are absurd and don't exist except in the mind of crooked thieving lawyers). Capitalism isn't based monopolies of general ideas. It's based on COMPETITION and it's time these companies stopped whining and stopped suing and started competing for my dollars instead of thinking they're just entitled to anything they want to charge!
