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“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. Carl Sagan 1996
ibuksh: its just wierd how samsung had similar looking phones in design way before the 1st iphone and still gets slapped with a fine/ban
spacedog:ibuksh: its just wierd how samsung had similar looking phones in design way before the 1st iphone and still gets slapped with a fine/ban
This picture would suggest the contrary to what you say:
Dingbatt: So I guess since Apple are so precious about gestures, they will be removing the pulldown notification bar on all future iOS versions?
I don't have too much of a problem with the 'Trade Dress' argument, but I do with software and gestures. Does the foregoing mean that facial recognition can be incorporated in iOS. What about NFC applications and how we interact. As has been pointed out, the loss is to innovation and advancement.
If they wish to wake the sleeping giant, so be it. But if Google put the message "Did you mean smartphone" at the top of any search results for "iphone", particularly in the coming weeks, who could blame them?
Edit: And Apple has obviously eschewed ever using widgets or live tiles?
ibuksh: yeah but $1 billion for those few features seems quite strong aye..
spacedog:ibuksh: yeah but $1 billion for those few features seems quite strong aye..
Some have argued that a $1 billion fine for copying Apple's design to become the #2 most profitable mobile company in the world was actually still a good strategy/bet. Samsung had something like $6b in profits on the S3? And they are not exactly a poor company with something like $21b in cash
ibuksh:spacedog:ibuksh: yeah but $1 billion for those few features seems quite strong aye..
Some have argued that a $1 billion fine for copying Apple's design to become the #2 most profitable mobile company in the world was actually still a good strategy/bet. Samsung had something like $6b in profits on the S3? And they are not exactly a poor company with something like $21b in cash
They should get the number of devices they sold and pay licence for using the feature per device sold.. I seriously doubt it would still amount to 10 digit figure
ibuksh: I wonder how much Apple were asking for per feature licence for each device..
Also you win some and you lose some.. So yeah.. Samsung gambled and lost.. but I doubt they would give up that easy..
there'd be appeals and cases following all this.. its gonna take a long long time..
oxnsox: if you read the groklaw article there is a lot of information highlighting inconsistencies thru the jury process of the trial. Most notably, and a fair summary for me, was this, (note is was recorded BEFORE the verdict was announced):
"This case is unmanageable for a jury," Robin Feldman, an intellectual property professor at the University of California Hastings Law School, said before the verdict. "There are more than 100 pages of jury instructions. I don't give that much reading to my law students. They can't possible digest it."
"The trial is evidence of a patent system that is out of control," Feldman said. "No matter what happens in this trial, I think people will need to step back and ask whether we've gone too far in the intellectual property system."
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