Paul Allen's Lawsuit Against Apple Faces Setback Over Lack of Specificity

[faroZ06]

Rubbish. Apple doesn't patent sue when an actual on-the-market product does not exist, unlike Mr. Allen. Apple ≠ patent troll.



He must be, as Microsoft is not named in the lawsuit but is almost certainly violating these same phantom patents.

Yes, don't pay attention to Wiidsmoker. He's a troll. Don't feed him. Especially because he actually supports MS in this.

Let's sue for "notifying users of items of attention"! Does this guy at MS sit all day and sue people for no reason?

 

[sachamun]

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Paul Allen. Didn't that guy get his head chopped off in American Psycho?

I'm gutted! You beat me to it by miles.

 

[blahblah100]

Yes, don't pay attention to Wiidsmoker. He's a troll. Don't feed him. Especially because he actually supports MS in this.

Let's sue for "notifying users of items of attention"! Does this guy at MS sit all day and sue people for no reason?

Supports Microsoft in what? They are not a party in the case. Do you even know what you are talking about?

Speaking of stupid lawsuits, let's sue people for creating laptop cases and calling them dopi!

 

[gnasher729]

If you haven't noticed, the amount of frivolous lawsuits have actually come down in the past ten years. This is a direct result of heavy fines and even convictions for "shotgunning" lawsuits and overburdening civil courts not to mention defendants wasted time in court.

Take SCO vs. IBM as an example.

SCO: "You copied our code! We want FOUR BILLION DOLLARS".
IBM: "We don't think we copied any code you own, but tell us what you think we copied and we sort it out. "
SCO: "We want FIVE BILLION DOLLARS now, because you copied _millions_ of lines of code, and we don't need to tell you what you copied; you copied it so you must know".

Four years later:
SCO: "This is the 230 lines of code that we say you copied".
IBM: "We didn't copy any of that code, but here is about 700,000 lines of our code that you copied without our permission. "
SCO: "We are bankrupt now, and we'll reorganise our company under Chapter 11 protection, so this court case has to stop".

Three years later:
SCO: "All the money we ever had is gone now, spending it on lawyers to prevent spending it on people we owe money".
Court: "Well, that's alright then. I'm sure you did your best. "

 

[CFreymarc]

Take SCO vs. IBM as an example.

SCO: "You copied our code! We want FOUR BILLION DOLLARS".
IBM: "We don't think we copied any code you own, but tell us what you think we copied and we sort it out. "
SCO: "We want FIVE BILLION DOLLARS now, because you copied _millions_ of lines of code, and we don't need to tell you what you copied; you copied it so you must know".

Four years later:
SCO: "This is the 230 lines of code that we say you copied".
IBM: "We didn't copy any of that code, but here is about 700,000 lines of our code that you copied without our permission. "
SCO: "We are bankrupt now, and we'll reorganise our company under Chapter 11 protection, so this court case has to stop".

Three years later:
SCO: "All the money we ever had is gone now, spending it on lawyers to prevent spending it on people we owe money".
Court: "Well, that's alright then. I'm sure you did your best. "

SCO really had bad attorneys and made the mistake of fighting the fight on IBM's terms instead of personally going after the IBM board members backgrounds and forcing an out of court settlement. That is how you run in this town.