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Author:  pcernie [ Mon Apr 18, 2011 11:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Apple sues Samsung over Galaxy range
http://www.techradar.com/news/portable- ... nge-944170

Is that one of those cases where it's more about protecting a ridiculous patent or two than anything approaching the real world? :?
Author:  smithsocksimon [ Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:03 am ]
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Surely, if as a business or an individual, you invest time and money in an invention, then you have a right, under current law, to protect that investment.

This is Apple’s development model: spend several years developing and honing the hardware (iPad, for instance, has been around longer than the iPhone in Apple’s labs); write first class software and an accompanying development platform; spend millions on a data centre to handle traffic to the iTunes and App stores.

This is its competitors’s model: copy Apple.
Author:  paulzolo [ Tue Apr 19, 2011 7:36 am ]
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Also, a lot of American business is carried out in the courts. They are always suing each other.
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Tue Apr 19, 2011 7:40 am ]
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pcernie wrote:
http://www.techradar.com/news/portable-devices/apple-sues-samsung-over-galaxy-range-944170

Is that one of those cases where it's more about protecting a ridiculous patent or two than anything approaching the real world? :?


short answer yes
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Tue Apr 19, 2011 8:14 am ]
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I saw the Samsung advert for the new phone and it looks just like an Apple ad. It was not until they closed in on the facia of the phone did you see Samsung on the top of the phone. It looked like an iPhone to me, at a glance.
Author:  l3v1ck [ Tue Apr 19, 2011 8:52 am ]
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Not content with being market leaders when it comes to mobile phones, they want to stomp on the competition and stop them from even competing in the market.
Sounds like a typical American bully boy company to me.
Well [LIFTED] Apple and [LIFTED] their iPhones!
Author:  steve74 [ Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:17 am ]
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Far from being bully boy tactics, these type of copyright/patent cases are common place in the tech industry and Apple have been sued and counter-sued by all unsundry (Nokia being a prime case in point). But, there's no hard feelings in business, in fact Samsung are also suppliers to Apple's iPad as well, making the A4 or A5 processors! That's what most people can't get their head around - this case will be resolved in (or out of) court and they'll move on, no big deal for either side, it's just the media who like to make it into more than it is - Samsung may very well continue to supply Apple with processors and other components and life will go on as usual. Or not.

No biggie.
:roll:
Author:  smithsocksimon [ Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:19 am ]
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steve74 wrote:
Far from being bully boy tactics, these type of copyright/patent cases are common place in the tech industry and Apple have been sued and counter-sued by all unsundry (Nokia being a prime case in point). But, there's no hard feelings in business, in fact Samsung are also suppliers to Apple's iPad as well, making the A4 or A5 processors! That's what most people can't get their head around - this case will be resolved in (or out) of court and they'll move on, no big deal for either side, it's just the media who like to make it into more than it is - Samsung may very well continue to supply Apple with processors and other components and life will go on as usual. Or not.

No biggie.


What he said: http://smithsocksimon.net/2011/04/19/apple-samsung/
Author:  pcernie [ Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Apple sues Samsung over Galaxy range
Details Of Apple's Lawsuit Against Samsung Revealed; And It's Even More Ridiculous

Quote:
from the steve-jobs-would-sue-his-sister dept

When we wrote about Apple's new lawsuit against Samsung over its new phones and tablets looking too much like Apple's iPhone and iPad, the full legal complaint from Apple wasn't yet public. However, it's now coming out, and the detailed list of patents and trademarks at issue make this seem ridiculous.


http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/a ... lous.shtml
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:53 pm ]
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Oh FFS. I've read some of those patents and they should not have been granted.

You might as well have a patent for "a smartphone - any device which does anything more than make or receive phone calls"
Author:  tombolt [ Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:13 pm ]
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Not for the first time, the issue here is the ludicrous us patent laws. At the end of the day if you've been granted a patent and someone infringes it, you have to sue. I only hope that at some point a judge says, "hang on, this is ridiculous".
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:45 pm ]
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tombolt wrote:
the issue here is the ludicrous us patent laws

Completely agree - I think it needs much more exact wording.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Apple sues Samsung over Galaxy range
cloaked_wolf wrote:
Oh FFS. I've read some of those patents and they should not have been granted.

You might as well have a patent for "a smartphone - any device which does anything more than make or receive phone calls"

Interestingly it is only the US that has suffered from the problems of software patents. At least the rest of the world are more sensible.
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