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THX Sues Apple Over Alleged 'Narrow Profile Speaker' Patent Infringement
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Apple is just like everyone else. They infringe on patents just as much as every other major company.
Tell me, have you actually looked at the patents in question? MacRumors should put them up so nobody says "BS! They patented something obvious!" unless it really is a dumb patent.
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I fail to see how THX has been harmed and lost money. They don't make components for any AIO or cellphone.
So they have a patent for a speaker that projects sound through a narrow slot... that's a pretty handy patent to have, because no one would think of doing that...
Depends on how they achieved it. I'd assume making such narrow speakers that sound good would take some advanced technology.
I just used a new iMac today, and I was impressed by the sound quality and loudness coming from tiny speakers. This is the one patent case I'm actually interested in.
They lost potential money from Apple. If Apple is using their patented designs, Apple has to pay for it if the patent is upheld as legitimate.
It's like digital piracy.
They are..Most of them. Some are speaker outlets but most are the the intake for the fans.
Eh? Sorry if facts delude you, and who the hell is Dilger?
I see Apple's Reality Distortion Field is in full affect on this thread.
If Apple stole tech on purpose... pay THX.
If they came up with the same tech by accident... pay THX.
If THX is trolling... pay the lawyers.
You misread his post. He was defending Apple re the "round rectangle" comment. (Since of course, that patent wasn't really as general as that old myth. Android astoturfers will take some little piece of a larger patent, and pretend it's the whole patent. If Apple invented a time machine that used batteries, these trolls would say "Apple tried to patent using batteries!" In the same breath, they'll say Samsung's version with 50 obviously cloned details that came out 6 months after Apple's, is mere coincidence...)'
The link is to Dilger. But in short: he's a biased (to the point of embarrassment) Apple fan and blogger who nonetheless sometimes has useful facts to point out. Better to find those facts from a less biased source, of course! And regardless of his bias, you can still look at his arguments and judge for yourself which ones makes sense. Many do.
If they came up with the same tech by accident... pay THX.
If THX is trolling... pay the lawyers.
You misread his post. He was defending Apple re the "round rectangle" comment. (Since of course, that patent wasn't really as general as that old myth. Android astoturfers will take some little piece of a larger patent, and pretend it's the whole patent. If Apple invented a time machine that used batteries, these trolls would say "Apple tried to patent using batteries!" In the same breath, they'll say Samsung's version with 50 obviously cloned details that came out 6 months after Apple's, is mere coincidence...)'
The link is to Dilger. But in short: he's a biased (to the point of embarrassment) Apple fan and blogger who nonetheless sometimes has useful facts to point out. Better to find those facts from a less biased source, of course! And regardless of his bias, you can still look at his arguments and judge for yourself which ones makes sense. Many do.
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Let me say that I do NOT care about upvotes. However, I think this deserves to be on the front. This seems like a complicated setup involving precise measurements and sound wave calculations, and I don't know much about the sound industry, but it seems like something patentable:
More detailed info here: http://www.google.com/patents/US20050129258
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With knowledge of your previous posts, I think you'd defend Samsung for doing the exact same thing.
More detailed info here: http://www.google.com/patents/US20050129258
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With knowledge of your previous posts, I think you'd defend Samsung for doing the exact same thing.
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So they have a patent for a speaker that projects sound through a narrow slot... that's a pretty handy patent to have, because no one would think of doing that...
Kind of like a rectangular phone with rounded corners eh?
The thing is that Apple would try to patent the use of batteries, if they changed it enough to look flashy. Everybody that isn't blind sees Apple as what it is, a patent hungry company patenting everything under the sun. BTW, if rounded corners are common place, why is it part of their patent?
Bose licensed it I think. Bose is mentioned on the Google patent page as referencing it: http://www.google.com/patents/US20050129258
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Apple didn't sue for others using rounded corners. Apple sued for others copying Apple's design, which included rounded corners. If you look at phones before and after the iPhone, it's blatant.
Same goes with the MacBook Pro. I went to Costco and thought for a few seconds that they had Macs. Nope.
I have no probs with that logic. However, if THX simply took Bose's ideas and shrunk them down to a computer model then they have NO right to patent this for themselves.
One word.... licensing.
THX gets paid a lot of money for their work.
They have been working in this field since the 70's.
This particular patent was filed for in 2003 and it took the USPTO until 2008 to grant the patent.
THX is owned by LucasFilms.
I think this is more about getting back at the guy that Apple hired.
