• Apple sues Samsung (again)

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    howard
    Published on 02-13-2012 09:04 AM
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    Looks like Apple is dragging Samsung back to the courtroom.

    This time it's for the Galaxy Nexus' ability to unlock a phone by sliding an image and the ability to search by voice.

    What do you think? Enough is enough? Maybe you shouldn't have quit law school, you could have became a lawyer for Apple or Samsung.
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    1. Steve Punter's Avatar
      Steve Punter - 02-13-2012, 11:27 AM
      I've already given up trying to understand the logic in any of this. I've just resigned myself to the knowledge that in the future a large corporation will be able to sue me for write ANY piece of software because they have a patent on "creating software works by typing them in using a keyboard".

      On the other hand, if I ever feel like the world in general is going to hell in a hand basket, I can always check out the most recent round of patent infringement lawsuits and be comforted that no matter how crazy the world may seem, it has a long way to go to catch up with them.
    1. bill_n_opus's Avatar
      bill_n_opus - 02-13-2012, 02:52 PM
      That's the way it is now ... companies subscribe to the idea/concept that you have to be "proactive" and sue the hell out of everyone ... based on the premise that it's better to be on the offensive than defensive.

      It's better to utilize resources and force other companies to waste resources "defending" themselves ... like keeping a psychopathic manager in check by working behind their backs to keep them occupied so as to prevent that manager from focusing on screwing up things that work.

      It is what it is.
    1. tech4fun's Avatar
      tech4fun - 02-13-2012, 03:19 PM
      You do know with Android you do voice search since 2.2 long before Apple copied the idea and released it last fall.
    1. primetechv2's Avatar
      primetechv2 - 02-13-2012, 03:52 PM
      It's kinda annoying a company that made all its money by stealing ideas (GUI, mouse, OOP) could be so bullheaded, thinking any good idea must be their idea.

      First off, Voice Search? Seriously? That's been around long, long before Siri (as tech4fun pointed out). The other three patents are probably almost as idiotic.
    1. GrenaDeD's Avatar
      GrenaDeD - 02-13-2012, 05:55 PM
      Sounds like Apple is desperate.
    1. Steve Punter's Avatar
      Steve Punter - 02-13-2012, 06:55 PM
      Way back when Douglas Adams penned the original script for the BBC radio show "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", he wrote a rather humorous passage that made fun of copyright law:

      "The simplistic style is partly explained by the fact that its editors, having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back of a pack of breakfast cereal, hastily embroidering it with a few footnotes in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly tortuous Galactic copyright laws. It is interesting to note that a later and wilier editor sent the book backwards in time through a temporal warp and then successfully sued the breakfast cereal company for infringement of the same laws."
    1. ahho's Avatar
      ahho - 02-13-2012, 10:17 PM
      I am just wondering, how can you patent a concept of a program when in the end it is all logic and math. This is like putting a patent on 1 + 1 = 2 or an equation that will equal to 2 will be banned.