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Apple Challenges Four Qualcomm Patents in Ongoing Legal Battle
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Apple won initially yes but 90% of those got overturned once people saw how asinine they truly were
You are wrong. Here’s just one example of Samsung being found to have infringed apple’s patents in another country. https://www.wired.com/2012/08/s-korea-court-rules-damages/
Here’s another. https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-266606004.html
There are more.
There are already patent treaties, but no nation likes to give up sovereign control to international bodies.
That little town in Texas that lives off patent trolls? I hope not. I'd rather see it in California, where both of the companies are, and where juries understand patents and Silicon Valley.
And here’s the German courts rejecting some of Apples cases too:
http://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSTRE8210JN20120302
Apple was even forced by the courts in the U.K. to print a public apology in the press for the way it behaved over its obsession with Samsung, which Apple took as a joke at first to which the courts did not and told Apple to do it again or find themselves in contempt of court or something to that effect:
http://globalnews.ca/news/304304/uk-judges-tell-apple-to-apologize-to-samsung-again-after-original-apology-falls-short/
That’s how peed off the worlds court got with them, but mainly Apple as it tried to ban Samsung from the planet, for no other reason then blocking the competition.
I would hope lots of companies do this. On the face of it patents get granted for some ridiculous things when they shouldn't have in the first place with the patent office leaving it up to the courts to determine if a patent is valid.
Perhaps they should assign the court costs of cancelled patents to the patent office. I'd bet that would make them do better work.
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Neither does the patent office
Crazy claims some people try on.
I mean, Apple, I feel you pain.
Someone might even be so stupid and crazy to try and copyright a rectangle with rounded corners as a form factor no one else can use.
I mean, how nuts would that be ?
I mean, Apple, I feel you pain.
Someone might even be so stupid and crazy to try and copyright a rectangle with rounded corners as a form factor no one else can use.
I mean, how nuts would that be ?
Apple started the patent battle when they claimed Samsung copied the look of the 3GS. i say they deserve everything they get on patents as a result.
This is going to be a difficult battle. Qualcomm's entire business model revolves around patents, and they likely file loads of broad, opportunistic patents for downstream devices even though they don't make any of them. Apple makes those downstream devices, and also hold some patents for upstream technologies, but likely not enough to threaten Qualcomm's immediate sales. Upstream stuff (like data encoding patterns) tends to be fairly specific, and consumer-related stuff tends to be fairly broad.
So it's easier for Qualcomm to get an import ban on Apple devices than it is for Apple to get an import ban on Qualcomm's chips.
So it's easier for Qualcomm to get an import ban on Apple devices than it is for Apple to get an import ban on Qualcomm's chips.
Why? They're trying to beat them in court and just kill them off.Just buy them.
Firstly you do then admit that you were wrong? You said that it was only the US where Scamsung, sorry I mean Samdung..I mean Samsung were being sued.
They were sued in many many countries. So your point about Apple being turned down in some countries means nothing.
next Apple were not trying to ban the competition because there is NO competition. Apple makes over 90% of worldwide smartphone profits. This with Samsung selling phones in many countries.
Also it was proven, pROVEN that Samsung DID copy the iPhone in many ways.
Samsung's own lawyer got confused and mistook the iPhone for a Samsung phone!
PLus internal Samsung documents were shown that were entitled how best to copy the iPhone.
Does this make Apple innocent in all things? Nope of course not but please do not bring your Apple hatred to a topic where Samsung are clearly wrong and clearly guilty! (regarding your point). Plus in relation to Qualcomm we do not know the outcome of the case yet so we will see.
They could always find a way to do the same thing but different enough NOT to fall foul of the patents. However most engineers are told NOT to read patents in case they are accused of wilful violation and therefore liable to triple damages.
I am not wrong, but the first sentence of your post tells me you’ll never believe any facts and that Apple is the Mesiah. So no point discussing anything with you, I didn’t read much of your post past the first sentence.
I find it pretty immature when people refer to Samsung in that way.
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Of what consequence is this to Mac and iphone users? This story belongs on CNBC.
Apple is so big and has so much money, they will force others to have to pay millions to protect it. It's cheaper for Apple, in the long run.
It's everyone's typical strategy
It's almost always the same defensive sequence:
- Claim a patent is invalid.
- If it is valid, you didn't infringe it.
- If you did infringe, it's worth just pennies.
You nailed it, Rick in Houston.
For Apple it is game theory applied to the art of litigation settlement.
And this legal strategy reflects the naming of its old Headquarters as "Infinite Loop".
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Ahhhh another episode of how the patent system is broken and needs reform when it works against Apple but how important it is for the protection of intellectual property when Apple is the one with a patent. Is there any other kind of thread topic where the bulk of us talk more like politicians than this one?
<any company not named Apple> is so wrong for seeking a patent fee/claim against Apple.
Apple deserves every penny when <any company not named Apple> infringes on Apple patents.
Patent troll when anyone else holds a patent that conflicts with anything Apple wants. But Apple patents are (the one and only) valid patents.
<any company not named Apple> is so wrong for seeking a patent fee/claim against Apple.
Apple deserves every penny when <any company not named Apple> infringes on Apple patents.
Patent troll when anyone else holds a patent that conflicts with anything Apple wants. But Apple patents are (the one and only) valid patents.
