Ralf-the-Jobs-Poodle.. HTC isn't going to roll over and die - they will fight back and hit Apple where it hurts. I for once would love nothing more than to see Jobs lose that smug smirk off his face.
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HTC Files Complaint Against Apple for Patent Infringement
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Ralf-the-Jobs-Poodle.. HTC isn't going to roll over and die - they will fight back and hit Apple where it hurts. I for once would love nothing more than to see Jobs lose that smug smirk off his face.
No we don't. The system works fine. The problem is that in the computer - related industries, infringement is common.
Is there a legal website where the actual claims and counter claims are being discussed in a comprehensive and granular way as regards the various suits and the likely outcomes?
That make take a week to read, but it would allow a synthesis of a likely endpoint outcome, which I predict being no items removed from market, and ordered license fees among the various claimants, that while numerically substantial, a small fraction of anybody's gross sales or net incomes.
Rocketman
That make take a week to read, but it would allow a synthesis of a likely endpoint outcome, which I predict being no items removed from market, and ordered license fees among the various claimants, that while numerically substantial, a small fraction of anybody's gross sales or net incomes.
Rocketman
Is there any case of something like this actually ever leading to a 'big' product's production and sale halted??
Or is it always sorted internally and nothing much comes of it?
Or is it always sorted internally and nothing much comes of it?
http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2010/05/12/htc-defends-itself-against-apple-with-a-video/
Not a bad video if you ask me!
Not a bad video if you ask me!
Agreed. And Apple has a ton of cash in the bank. Maybe that is why Palm hasn't been sued. They couldn't afford the royalities.
But I think it is different for Apple v HTC. Apple is protecting technology, not looking for royalites, and HTC is simply countersuing.
Yes, and we are sick and tired of Apple suing every cell phone company so they'll be the only game in town.
My mind just blew up.
Forget the stupid computer industry. They've got so much money they can afford to piss it away on petty crap like this. OUTSIDE la-la land, in the rest of the world, our system is either not effective at all, or has the opposite effect it was intended to have, and benefits only attorneys. It's garbage, and no one likes it. I have never ever, in any industry, ever heard anyone regardless of politics or personal interest, make the above statement. Beyond what I just said, I'm speechless.
Love Apple but they're stepping all over the place
I think all this is making Apple look bad. Especially when they went after that guy who supposedly found the new iPhone. If they just focus on themselves, on making better products, on good things like the environment and people, they wouldn't really have any competition because nobody would be able to keep up with them.
I think all this is making Apple look bad. Especially when they went after that guy who supposedly found the new iPhone. If they just focus on themselves, on making better products, on good things like the environment and people, they wouldn't really have any competition because nobody would be able to keep up with them.
I hope HTC gets thrown under the bus. Then I hope the bus reverses over them several more times. I HATE my HTC Hero. I honestly would rather have a "dumb phone" instead of the Hero... But I'm stuck on a 2 year contract with this nonsense.
As a user of both companies products, I hope this all ends with butterflies and happiness.
It will for the lawyers of each company.
Damn, I should have been a patent lawyer.
In the end they cross-license all their patent portfolios and the little guys get screwed!
...or so say those against the current system.
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1. Sell hated phone.
2. Get dumbphone of your choice that you'd prefer.
3. ???
4. Profit!
motohooligan said:
1. Sell hated phone.
2. Get dumbphone of your choice that you'd prefer.
3. ???
4. Profit!
I wonder which patents they are suing over..I think they are just desperate and wanted to make it all seem ridiculous. I hope Apple wins. Others are using technology that Apple invented and patented. Before iPhone, there were just ****** phones with styluses..and now everyone copies from Apple. Like when Microsoft copies OS X and puts similar features into Windows OS.
I disagree.
Apple sees the writing on the wall re: Android, and is trying to slow the competition. Many companies have a policy of not using patents offensively. Apple is not one of these.
Wait, you say Apple applied multi-touch in their products before HTC so it's likely that HTC did copy stuff.
However HTC (and Nokia, for that matter) created smart phones before Apple, yet the same logic does not apply?
Smells like fanboyism to me...
So now Apple's an innovator in lawsuits? What's next, Apple innovates how to breathe!?