I don't believe that it does need to be protected. And I don't believe that anything "intellectual" can be "property." Here are some great articles on the subject:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/4055.html
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Motorola Wins Preliminary Injunction, Could Bar Sales of iPhone and 3G iPad in Europe [Updated x2]
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/4055.html
No it's not. I sold everything in my house that wasn't Apple branded the day I bought my first iPod.
MMI has just issued a press release.
The key phrase is here:
The bottom line is that this is all about money. I doubt Motorola Mobility will actually seek to enforce a product ban.
The key phrase is here:
The bottom line is that this is all about money. I doubt Motorola Mobility will actually seek to enforce a product ban.
The iPhone and iPad will not be banned in the UK. A huge percentage of their audience is within the EU. Also, all you Motorola and Samsung bummers, just **** off. This is MAC rumours. Don't like Apple? SCREW YOU!
Companies like Samsung and Motorola and just bitterly jealous of Apple because they can't produce anything but ****** mobiles that are practically just given away for free.
Apple won't lose Europe as an audience. Apple may just be forced to pay Motorola.
Companies like Samsung and Motorola and just bitterly jealous of Apple because they can't produce anything but ****** mobiles that are practically just given away for free.
Apple won't lose Europe as an audience. Apple may just be forced to pay Motorola.
My thoughts exactly. Apple wanted to play this game, so they deserve the consequences if they loose.
They never actually went to national or regional courts, though (the closest was the ITC). 2 years is pretty brief in the world of lawsuits.
I have a mixture of products , mostly older Apple products before they started going downhill. And shock horror a Mac Clone.
I think they will enforce it only if they don't get paid what they want.
Now the injunction is a threat to force Apple pay
I think you're referring to the countries that use the Euro currency. Thats not the whole of Europe
For one thing the UK never opted to use the Euro (good thing too I guess!).Indeed. This nonsense has to stop. Imagine if all these companies would spend the money they spend on lawsuits on improving their products instead.
Obvious solution?
It seems obvious to me. Apple should put the offer on the table. The judge's table, with a check for 1/3 the offer and a bond for 2/3 the offer. Let the judge determine when, to whom and how much should be paid. Be so forward leaning and compliant, an injunction is itself taken off the table.
By the time the lawsuit is litigated we will be beyond 1 or 2 full product cycles anyway including 4G LTE.
Rocketman
ruling said:
It seems obvious to me. Apple should put the offer on the table. The judge's table, with a check for 1/3 the offer and a bond for 2/3 the offer. Let the judge determine when, to whom and how much should be paid. Be so forward leaning and compliant, an injunction is itself taken off the table.
By the time the lawsuit is litigated we will be beyond 1 or 2 full product cycles anyway including 4G LTE.
Rocketman
I think he was also referring to the Samsung case which was basically thrown out today: http://9to5mac.com/2011/12/09/samsu...ives-galaxy-tab-10-1-a-go-ahead-in-australia/
It was rightfully concluded that Samsung did not copy the iPad. Apple didnt help themselves by submitting doctored evidence though
Sigh, why cant we all just get along. Have all the tablets on the market, no legal battles and let the consumers decided with their wallets!
That's not the way humans and reality work.
Since the dawn of time (wooden club in a cave) one man has seen something another man made and though, Oh, that's good. I can make something like that. Perhaps even make it better.
It's how we got where we are today.
Many things are just evolutionary versions of earlier things.
The same even goes for movies. There are only so many really different movies out there, everything else is just a modified version of something else
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I've arranged a stack of smart covers into a makeshift bed and use an old nVidia 8600 powered MBP to cook on.
Obviously.
You do know that a lot of the articles written on urban dictionary and uncyclopedia are written by people like the kind you are describing. I guess they have first hand experience like you?
Buy your phone now! Pretty soon all the smartphones will be blocked and you will only be able to buy a Razr type phone. </sarcasm>