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Apple Loses Appeal in VirnetX Dispute, Could Owe Over $1.1 Billion
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The bounds of the current law as peculiarly applied by the infamous courts of south eastern Texas
All patent cases that are appealed go to the same court (Federal Circuit), and Apple doesn’t seem to have had any luck there re: virnetx.
Agreed. And software patents should be 2 years for novel work and 1 year for derivative work. No extensions.
There is nothing illegal about being a patent troll. Only your feelings got hurt.
Notice that you used an analogy to a well-deserved medicine patent instead of talking about the actual patent in this case.
There are very few novel ideas in software nowadays, and the novel ones are usually pure math like encryption algorithms. Apple has the talent to build a video chat app without stealing patented ideas, and I highly doubt they found and copied this. An unproven technology from a company that makes 100% of its income from lawsuits. Usually the entire value of software is in development and execution, mostly the latter. Even university CS researchers build useful proofs of concept.
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Sideshow Bob was saying the same thing, that Apple's open source stuff isn't worthy of consideration.
Who said it was illegal? Who said my feelings are hurt? I have no skin in the game. You do know it’s possible to be somewhere between not caring and being outraged, right? I can think they’re scumbags without exerting too much energy.
I like apple products, but I can't feel too badly about them in this case seeing how they, themselves, basically stole the Apple Watch technology from a small company
Apple Stole Tech for Watch, Masimo Claims in Patent Suit
Apple Inc. is accused of stealing trade secrets and improperly using Masimo Corp. inventions related to health monitoring in its Apple Watch.
www.bloomberg.com
Yeah there’s a reason every single one of these cases are in south eastern Texas. Because it wouldn’t fly anywhere else in the country.
Apple Stole Tech for Watch, Masimo Claims in Patent Suit
Apple Inc. is accused of stealing trade secrets and improperly using Masimo Corp. inventions related to health monitoring in its Apple Watch.
So has the court or a jury found that Masimo’s claims are true? Or do we just believe everything that every company that wants a billion dollars says?
No. Tyler, Texarkana, Marshall, etc. Juries have a reputation of big damages awards, and the rules followed by the courts are alleged to be favorable to patentees. At least that’s what some people believe.
VirnetX don't invent anything. When you look at their history and roadmap - there can be seen real clear that they are patent trolls and nothing els. Look at their home page and what they do activity, their location and strange appearance and a complex schematics on security found by others and not related to Virnetx as they stated Virnetx on media just to fill up a history but in real life they do nothing.
I founded all VirnetX data and saved all their history. in 2007., after one month of first iPhone anouncment they started a website. This company have investors who put their money in, to make more money on patent trolling and in one year of activity become, as they stated, leading security comapany?
In February of 2007, VirnetX filed suit against Microsoft (News - Alert) alleging patent infringement. About a year later, Microsoft filed a Motion to Dismiss, and, in June 2008, the court denied the Motion.
They sued Microsoft many times.
And more and more... They do physically nothing in security, but just brainstorming a patents and then make money on suing rich companies.
Started website in 2007. and in the same year they started to suing big companies Microfot and later Apple - those who has money.
Exelent bussines plan!
I think this company needs for investigation from police. And again - we can see really clear, that in this point there are some hole in law to avoid such trolling companies.
Court are not a tech guy, they see a well written patents/documents but in real life scenario are a bit different. Is they infringe law? No! Is they infringe ethics - yes! Is it criminal? I think - it is!
And as we see from history of Apple, Apple always buy patent's or companies who has a dedicated technology. Why Apple and Microsoft not buying technologies from VirnetX? Because they do not have them! Logic? Logic!
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East Texas, really.
The Town That Trolls Built
The Supreme Court ruled that patent holders can no longer choose where to file infringement suits. That's bad news for Marshall, Texas.
www.bloomberg.com
That statement and belief is completely ridiculous. So, according to you (and others, it seems), intellectual property must manifest itself in actual tangible products, or else other companies can just appropriate it for themselves to profit off of. Good grief.
Well in this case then let’s have a field day and take as many of Apple‘s patents that we want which are not currently incorporated in a product they’re offering.
Oh my, where is the courts wisdom in all of this? Isnt there a jury that thinks this is pure illegal. Virnetx is nothing but a illegal Law firm buying patents for Business.
You keep calling things illegal. What law did virnetx break?
You hit it right on the button. Apple should not be talking about patent trolls. After all, did it not patent swiping your phone to open it and sued others for using similar action?
The issue with the patient system today is, that it doesn’t allow for two or more people/groups to come up with the same answer for same question/problem. We have millions of hardware and software engineers, you can’t tell me that everyone of them is going to solve a similar problem a different way.
How is that a “patent troll?” By definition a patent troll does not practice its own invention.