While the plaintiff claims that he continues to experience "great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money," he has demanded a jury trial and is seeking restitution no less than $10 billion and a royalty of up to 1.5% on Apple's worldwide sales of infringing devices.
You're assuming he has a job.Another slow news day eh?
This won't even come close to transpiring. He's hoping to make a quick $30k settlement and have this thrown out. That won't even happen.
Back to work you go Florida man to your 9-5 job.
It quite clearly is not phone sized but laptop dimensions. The keyboard and the disk drive are a giveaway. You can't patent a laptop and then say it's an iPhone.
No, and that's a large part of the problem. Baseless lawsuits can take years to slowly move through courts, depending on how much money the plaintiff wants to spend. I know a small business owner who's been involved with a suit for over 10 years. He's "won" the suit twice in court and had the case dismissed several other times. But the plaintiff keeps appealing or refilling. And when he was told that he could not bring suit again for the same thing he changed the accusation and then had his wife file the suit.Thrown out in 3...2...1...
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Florida resident Thomas S. Ross has filed a lawsuit against Apple this week, claiming that the iPhone, iPad, and iPod infringe upon his 1992 invention of a hand-drawn "Electronic Reading Device" (ERD). The court filing claims the plaintiff was "first to file a device so designed and aggregated," nearly 15 years before the first iPhone.
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Between May 23, 1992 and September 10, 1992, Ross designed three hand-drawn technical drawings of the device, primarily consisting of flat rectangular panels with rounded corners that "embodied a fusion of design and function in a way that never existed prior to 1992."Ross applied for a utility patent to protect his invention in November 1992, but the application was declared abandoned in April 1995 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after he failed to pay the required application fees. He also filed to copyright his technical drawings with the U.S. Copyright Office in 2014.
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While the plaintiff claims that he continues to experience "great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money," he has demanded a jury trial and is seeking restitution no less than $10 billion and a royalty of up to 1.5% on Apple's worldwide sales of infringing devices.
Ross v. Apple, Inc. was filed with the Florida Southern District Court on June 27. The case number is 0:2016cv61471.
Article Link: Florida Man Sues Apple for $10+ Billion, Says iOS Devices Copy His 1992 Drawings
[doublepost=1467208631][/doublepost]He will loose as Apple already had the Newton and PARC had already made a functional iPad like device with all features he "dreamed up" and other small devices before both. Funny hes talking backlit LCDs before they were possible likely a complete fraud and drew this up recently.
Florida resident Thomas S. Ross has filed a lawsuit against Apple this week, claiming that the iPhone, iPad, and iPod infringe upon his 1992 invention of a hand-drawn "Electronic Reading Device" (ERD). The court filing claims the plaintiff was "first to file a device so designed and aggregated," nearly 15 years before the first iPhone.
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Between May 23, 1992 and September 10, 1992, Ross designed three hand-drawn technical drawings of the device, primarily consisting of flat rectangular panels with rounded corners that "embodied a fusion of design and function in a way that never existed prior to 1992."Ross applied for a utility patent to protect his invention in November 1992, but the application was declared abandoned in April 1995 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after he failed to pay the required application fees. He also filed to copyright his technical drawings with the U.S. Copyright Office in 2014.
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While the plaintiff claims that he continues to experience "great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money," he has demanded a jury trial and is seeking restitution no less than $10 billion and a royalty of up to 1.5% on Apple's worldwide sales of infringing devices.
Ross v. Apple, Inc. was filed with the Florida Southern District Court on June 27. The case number is 0:2016cv61471.
Article Link: Florida Man Sues Apple for $10+ Billion, Says iOS Devices Copy His 1992 Drawings
Exactly why he is suing apple. They got money.Looks more like a Palm Treo.
I sort of doubt Apple will have any court costs on this one, since it'll likely get thrown out all together.Maybe pay the application fees next time, twit? If I was king for a day, this guy would pay Apple's court costs.
Better alert Blackberry and Palm, looks like they're gonna get sued too. Look out Kindles and Fire Tables too.
All I know is...
... if he wins...
... I'm digging through all my third grade "future computer" drawings that my Mom kept !!
"... but the application was declared abandoned in April 1995 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after he failed to pay the required application fees."
End of story. Next.
[doublepost=1467223838][/doublepost]Go sue Nokia... 9300 to be exact!
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He can't sue if he never filed a patent in the first place plus his drawing looks nothing like anything I've seen in my life and I'm a late 80s kind of guy. Palm looks nothing like that crap drawing nor does Blackberry or Nokia and if Apple did steal the idea, how come 0% of it isn't in the iPhone design? No hardware keyboard, no disc/memory drives, no integrated stylus (Samsung, watch out), no nothing. This nonsense is a pure waste of time, just another patent troll who forgot to pay his dues for the past 25 years.
lol I love it when people crawl out of the paint work to try and get a slice of that money cake, no matter how weak their claim. $10bn is very greedy for a patent that's not even close to what Apple sell today.
"application was declared abandoned in April 1995 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after he failed to pay the required application fees."
thats that done and dusted.
Funny hes talking backlit LCDs before they were possible likely a complete fraud and drew this up recently.
Of course, Apple started working on the Newton (released in 1993 with rounded corners and a more similar design to these drawings than the iPhone) in 1987. I'm sure they have drawings of it.
That is IF, a big a** if, that his lawsuit is even considered for a case. Otherwise, this isn't gonna get far past the judge's ruling for file.
Prediction for this thread:
I project 633 votes (to bashes) against Ross, 8 for Ross.
Another thread where it would be an old Apple patent or Apple drawing in which Apple is trying to challenge someone for bringing something they drew or patented to market: 633 votes for Apple, 8 votes for the other entity.
At least, we're consistent around here![]()
Not sure about making it as you could have a genius idea that would actually cost millions to produce a prototype. However, there should at least be a requirement to detail how the thing works rather than just draw a picture of, say, a time machine and then try to patent it (although by definition patent battles over time machines are always going to be fraught with unique difficulties)
I love the "mini diskette" feature. Might be useful for storage.Lol. Dude, not even close.
Can't believe Apple still hasn't offered that optional cellular antenna though!![]()