Courier sized 11 is often used in legal briefs submitted to courts in the United States. And I believe the complaint was that they didn't use size 11, but smaller.
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Courier sized 11 is often used in legal briefs submitted to courts in the United States. And I believe the complaint was that they didn't use size 11, but smaller.
I don't have to imagine...and it probably took much longer than a day.
FWIW, Apple's brief was more interesting and pointed than most.
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You see, Apple invented the name "App Store". Before the iPhone, there was no such thing as the "App Store". Before Microsoft, there were still windows. Millions of them.
You see, Apple invented the name "App Store". Before the iPhone, there was no such thing as the "App Store". Before Microsoft, there were still windows. Millions of them.
I don't know if apple broke the filing rules or not, that depends on which exact parts constitute the briefing itself and what is supporting material; but thats not the bigger issue in my mind. This whole thing is just pathetic, rather than simply creating a new name, or heaven forbid use one of their existing ones, they are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a legal battle.
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Time to pull the old high school essay paper trick and mess with the margins and line spacing. Also I recommend they try 10.5 size font. Hard to tell the difference and you can probably squeeze in a couple extra lines by the end of a 25 page document.
Time to pull the old high school essay paper trick and mess with the margins and line spacing. Also I recommend they try 10.5 size font. Hard to tell the difference and you can probably squeeze in a couple extra lines by the end of a 25 page document.
It's up to them, especially since marketing material I recently found while cleaning out an old office, referred to running [app name] Application on Windows 3.1
Actually, there was an application store before iOS... Apple just trademarked it first as the "app store", which is what MS is trying to say is not justified. And unless you have your J.D., you probably don't know what you're talking about.
I'm going to side with MS here.
App store is too general.
It would be like trademarking grocery store.
App store is too general.
It would be like trademarking grocery store.
I couldn't agree more.
Exactly. I don't think the point is ... well the point.
IANAL, but here's my understanding of the legal process
Ideas are soldiers. They are on your side, or the other one. You bring as many soldiers as you can, and try to eliminate all the soldiers on the other side.
- the claim wasn't properly filed
- the claim was written in the wrong font
- the claim is invalid
- even if the claims valid, my client wasn't at fault
- even if he was at fault, there's a loophole
- even if there's no loophole, there were no damages
- even if there were damage, they were caused by another party
- OK, partly caused by another party
...
and so on.
The US court system is practically designed to make lawyers rich.
Ideas are soldiers. They are on your side, or the other one. You bring as many soldiers as you can, and try to eliminate all the soldiers on the other side.
- the claim wasn't properly filed
- the claim was written in the wrong font
- the claim is invalid
- even if the claims valid, my client wasn't at fault
- even if he was at fault, there's a loophole
- even if there's no loophole, there were no damages
- even if there were damage, they were caused by another party
- OK, partly caused by another party
...
and so on.
The US court system is practically designed to make lawyers rich.
BRAVO!
And thank you.
But, regardless of party in America, the vast majority of legislators are last I checked lawyers and they all will stop any effort for tort reform or patent reform because they get so much money from those organizations and the organizations that lawyers represent.
Four years of college and 3 years of law school just to count words and measure fonts. Great job.
Brings to mind this old argument:
Font Rendering Philosophies of Mac and Windows
Brings to mind this old argument:
Font Rendering Philosophies of Mac and Windows
The Prog Store! And they could run a series of ads with Dream Theater, Yes, and Genesis shilling for them!
The abbreviation "apps" has been around a long time. If you asked any PDA owner in 2000 what app store he used, he'd have known what you meant, and would've replied Handango or Palm Store or whatever.
A 2005 article entitled "Blackberry software set to surge" stated this:
The article uses the word "apps" almost a dozen times.
That's THREE years before the Apple App Store.
A 2005 article entitled "Blackberry software set to surge" stated this:
The article uses the word "apps" almost a dozen times.
That's THREE years before the Apple App Store.
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