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Apple Facing New Patent Lawsuit Over iPhone
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Did you even read the short blurb that was written about this issue?let me guess where this will be filed...... Texas court.... yep
I'm going to patent "a method of communication using a system of simple discrete glyphs which, when rearranged in specific orders, form infinitely variable representations of concepts, places, and objects."
Every single one of you is using my alphabet invention! Pay up!
Every single one of you is using my alphabet invention! Pay up!
LOL! That is the most ambiguous description of a Smartphone, or netbook, or any other small device that may or may not operate like a phone and or pda possibly in a dock with maybe a fold out keyboard with possible screen interface for video and/or graphics and/or audio and/or text that might have one or two antennas and could possibly transform in to a decpticon and/or autobot.
Probably be better to buy the company and fire the board of directors Hmmm, lets see, pay check vs. no pay check. That'll fix 'em
Hmmm, lets see, pay check vs. no pay check. That'll fix 'em
Apple granted patent for iPhone.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/apple-granted-design-patent-for-iphone-3g-3gs/
WTF LOL
We definitely need reform of these laws.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/apple-granted-design-patent-for-iphone-3g-3gs/
WTF LOL
We definitely need reform of these laws.
I am going to file for a patent on "Mobile Comminucations Device with round corners".
BAM JACK POT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm going to file for a patent on people filing for patents.
The nature of success
It's worth keeping in mind that the increased number of lawsuits and investigations aimed at Apple are nothing to do with any change in the behaviour of the company. They're merely the result of success. The more you succeed the more others will attack you.
Looked at in this way this is really good week for Apple.
On another note:
I don't really understand why some people get so upset by what Apple does. Jobs and Co. have a plan and they're following it. We can buy their stuff or buy from any one of the huge number of vendors who offer competing goods. Before attacking Apple many would do well to remember that the Smartphone Market is as full of amazing products as it is now in large part because of the iPhone.
I was working at Carphone Warehouse when the iPhone came out and I remember well the crappy choices on offer at the time. The iPhone was a leap forward. Since then the tech world has rushed to catch up and we now get to choose from among many great smartphones. I say this with absolute confidence; if not for the iPhone we'd still be using handsets now that none of us would give a second look in the post-iPhone world.
So whatever anyone thinks of Apple, we all owe them a huge debt of gratitude. Jobs may well be an ******* but people like him move the world forward.
It's worth keeping in mind that the increased number of lawsuits and investigations aimed at Apple are nothing to do with any change in the behaviour of the company. They're merely the result of success. The more you succeed the more others will attack you.
Looked at in this way this is really good week for Apple.
On another note:
I don't really understand why some people get so upset by what Apple does. Jobs and Co. have a plan and they're following it. We can buy their stuff or buy from any one of the huge number of vendors who offer competing goods. Before attacking Apple many would do well to remember that the Smartphone Market is as full of amazing products as it is now in large part because of the iPhone.
I was working at Carphone Warehouse when the iPhone came out and I remember well the crappy choices on offer at the time. The iPhone was a leap forward. Since then the tech world has rushed to catch up and we now get to choose from among many great smartphones. I say this with absolute confidence; if not for the iPhone we'd still be using handsets now that none of us would give a second look in the post-iPhone world.
So whatever anyone thinks of Apple, we all owe them a huge debt of gratitude. Jobs may well be an ******* but people like him move the world forward.
How about "air"planes
. After all, they are portable in a manner of speaking. I suppose the "air"lines could also bring about a law suit.
In a related story...
The estate of Gene Roddenberry to sue everyone for infringement of his prior art - wireless communicators, multi-touch flatscreen displays, etc.
The estate of Gene Roddenberry to sue everyone for infringement of his prior art - wireless communicators, multi-touch flatscreen displays, etc.
This is not an iphone, ipod, or ipad. This basically describes almost any netbook or laptop out there. This troll could sue every computer maker out there. And wait - I bought my first laptop in 1997 and laptops I believe have been a around a few years longer than that. So if this patent is from 2006 - how the heck did it get through. I would think he could be sued by every computer maker (unless they did not patent it). I say this guy should be sued for fraud. How rich is he getting off of frivolous lawsuits.
And the article does state that he has sued under various company names.
Sounds like a person I know who set up various companies, used his computer to route calls to an answering system to take messages for departments that did not exist, and then he hacked other companies servers to host websites, and then charged his customer the hosting fee - because he did not want to host the site himself and ruin his precious bandwith he was using to download porn.
lol. i'm not very familiar with patent law, but companies don't need to actually build the device they're seeking patent protection on?
I like the German system. Very first thing in a lawsuit, the judge decides what the value of the case is. If you ask me to pay $100,000,000 and I offer to pay you $10, then we arguing about the difference, $99,999,990. Then he takes a table and checks: For $100,000,000, there is say $3,000,000 due to the court, and $3,000,000 due to each side's lawyers (numbers are not exact, but about the right order of magnitude). At the end, the judge decides how much will be paid. If he decides I should pay you $5,000,000 then that's 5 percent of the case value, so I pay 5% of three times $3,000,000 on top. You didn't get $95,000,000 which is 95% of the case value, so you pay 95% of three times $3,000,000 cost. You will notice that even though I lost the case, you ended up paying almost $4,000,000 because of your greed.
If the lawyers' bill is more than $3,000,000, that is tough for them. They won't actually get paid. So a big company can't sue you for $10,000 and bury you with lawyer costs if they don't like you; worst case you could lose $10,000 (as in the USA) plus a few hundred for court and lawyers, even if they paid $10,000,000 to their in-house lawyers. And the judge will put a stop to it if they think the case is too long for the court's fee.
Right indeed! The legal profession is ruining this country, driving costs up everywhere, creating a culture of opportunistic victimhood, discouraging people from taking responsibility for their own actions, and doing little (if anything) to actually make our country a better place.
can't believe the device is almost out for 3 years now...
even iphone 4G is coming
now a company says Apples copying their ideas?
Don't even try...... cuz if it was ur idea... you would've done something constructive and made the iPhone
Agreed. If they didn't have a problem with it before, why wait till now? Its obviously a bogus claim to just get attention.
I hope his lawyer isn't doing this for free. In fact, I hope both him and his lawyer lose a lot of time and money on this frivolous BS.