Apple Wins Appeals Battle in Ongoing Patent Infringement War With VirnetX, Could Save $502.8 Million

[Mr. Jaybear]

Hey, MacRumors: The name of the court is "The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit". Not sure what that word salad is that you are using.

 

[CWallace]

I am wondering, for a $500M lawsuit like this, how much do the lawyers charge Apple?

Apple's legal team are likely all salaried so arguing cases like this are just part of their daily duties.

 

[gregmancuso]

Apple stopped Apple from making the lightning connector open standard.

Apple continues to stop Apple from making iMessage and open service.

I doubt Apple would allow FaceTime cross devices.

FaceTime was built on open standards and was originally planned to be open. Steve said so during the announcement.

 

[DaveN]

Honestly, the fact that they're based in Tahoe is kind of a dead giveaway. Not exactly a tech hub.

Yes. I never saw more than a car or two parked in front of the Marla Bay office when I would drive by and that was way before the work at home boom. I didn’t even know what they did until I read about the lawsuit years later.

 

[farmboy]

Not wishing to contend anything apart from your final statement. People DO own ideas, the whole time. That’s what copyright law is for.

"Copyright does not protect ideas, concepts, systems, or methods of doing something. You may express your ideas in writing or drawings and claim copyright in your description, but be aware that copyright will not protect the idea itself as revealed in your written or artistic work"

www.copyright.gov.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Apple's legal team are likely all salaried so arguing cases like this are just part of their daily duties.

But they also likely used 'outside council', and they charge a lot. One corporate attorney I heard talk said that he usually handles the 'light stuff', and anything larger, they call in their outside attorneys. Often based on time, and specialization.

 

[Gasu E.]

Xerox's STAR GUI looks very similar to the Mac Classic. At least to me. This was a time when a GUI was almost nonexistent.

The STAR GUI and the original Mac GUI are quite different. The Star GUI had icons, but they weren't objects-- they were entirely static graphics, placed in predetermined locations by the OS. They were just predetermined location on the screen, where if you moved the cursor there and clicked, something happened. One of the distinctions of the Mac GUI is that the icons were objects that could be dragged and placed anywhere on the screen as the user saw fit. That was an entirely new level of abstraction that was a good deal beyond the Star. BTW, I was privileged to get to use one of the first Xerox workstations for a short period of time, so this is from my first hand experience.