Comments on: Is it time for Apple’s patent war to end? http://gigaom.com/2011/12/28/is-it-time-for-apples-patent-war-to-end/ Tue, 21 May 2013 18:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ayesha http://gigaom.com/2011/12/28/is-it-time-for-apples-patent-war-to-end/#comment-798528 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:38:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461570#comment-798528 can someone pls explain me ths news appple scores in patent war against android..plsss

]]> By: anto33 http://gigaom.com/2011/12/28/is-it-time-for-apples-patent-war-to-end/#comment-786727 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:06:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461570#comment-786727 Apple plays dirty and I wish they were treated the same way.

]]> By: frd750 http://gigaom.com/2011/12/28/is-it-time-for-apples-patent-war-to-end/#comment-786400 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:24:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461570#comment-786400 The only people that can stop this nonsense is the US congress. Software and design patents are stupid and issuing patents while ignoring prior art is not legal but the USPO does it anyhow.

If all designs were patentable, builders would be so busy defending their product that we’d all be living in tents

]]> By: Salinda Green http://gigaom.com/2011/12/28/is-it-time-for-apples-patent-war-to-end/#comment-785937 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:13:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461570#comment-785937 Are you still be lonely? Do you want someone to companion with you. My- friends told me a nice place —— ‘Millionaire’Social…℃0–MThere are so many beautiful /successful people!,young girls / millionaire men. to- int’eract with each other., “everything to everyone”dating \.marry .even, a nice club for y’ounger women and old’er men, or older women and y’ounger men, and Age is no problem. everything is possible!You do not have to be rich or famous

]]> By: Rob http://gigaom.com/2011/12/28/is-it-time-for-apples-patent-war-to-end/#comment-785751 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:40:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461570#comment-785751 LOL now that most of apples patent suits are being dismissed and the counter suits are about to cripple the patent troll…now you say it’s time to stop. Thats like punching somebody in the face for a while and then when you see its not stopping them and they’re about to knock your teeth in and saying ‘you know what dude violence is wrong’. apple is going to get it’s but kicked and kicked hard in court enjoy it apple…you started it and you sure as hell deserve this butt kicking

]]> By: Brian http://gigaom.com/2011/12/28/is-it-time-for-apples-patent-war-to-end/#comment-785708 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:41:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461570#comment-785708 “in an effort to undermine the overall consumer appeal of competing products.”

I don’t think this is the goal at all. I think the goal is make Android unattractive to hardware manufacturers in an effort to get them to abandon Android. This would make sense, considering that Apple is only suing the hardware makers (and not Google directly). Just one man’s opinion, but I doubt any customer looking for a cell phone would pause to consider the legal situation of the manufacturer first. I estimate that very few would care.

Moreover, and as someone that owns and enjoys many Apple products, I find these lawsuits to be — for lack of a better way to put it — a complete waste of time. As Darrell has already stated, even in Apple’s “victories” they’ve achieved nothing significant, as it is painfully easy for HTC, Samsung, Motorola, etc, to workaround the infringing technology.

The bottom line here is that Android isn’t going anywhere, and Apple just needs to learn to play nice.

Also, I find it rather amusing that Apple is steady racking up patents for technology they didn’t even invent (and that existed well before the iPhone/iOS), and then set out to sue any and everyone using their “innovations.” God, our (the U.S.) patent system is in the toilet…

]]> By: Rich http://gigaom.com/2011/12/28/is-it-time-for-apples-patent-war-to-end/#comment-785631 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:23:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461570#comment-785631 @Shawn MacLeod: Right, no one forces you to read these blogs.

]]> By: ViewRoyal http://gigaom.com/2011/12/28/is-it-time-for-apples-patent-war-to-end/#comment-785630 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:21:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461570#comment-785630 Darrell, are you suggesting that only Apple should stop litigating against patent infringers?

What about all other companies, should they stop protecting their patents too?

Should any company be allowed to rip-off a competitor’s intellectual property, without legal consequence? (If this was the case, no one would spend any funds on R&D to invent new things, knowing that their competitors would benefit from their efforts.)

]]> By: jfutral http://gigaom.com/2011/12/28/is-it-time-for-apples-patent-war-to-end/#comment-785602 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:44:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461570#comment-785602 I understand that “many” is really a very subjective term. But I think that a law student is esoteric enough that you probably fall outside the respondent’s definition of “many people”. And really, for a law student there are probably more appropriate sources of patent legalities and affects, such as Mueller’s fosspatents.com.

By and large I agree that there is a glut of internet armchair pundits and legal analysts of the patent wars (most of which have no clue what they are talking about, regarding either patents in general or Apple patents specifically), and I mean that in the most derisive way possible. But I think GigaOM is not one of them.

Joe

]]> By: pk22901 http://gigaom.com/2011/12/28/is-it-time-for-apples-patent-war-to-end/#comment-785599 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:37:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461570#comment-785599 This just in: http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/12/apple-adds-another-core-iphone-multitouch-patent-to-their-arsenal.html

This is one of the big ones. Apple has patented the *mechanism* they use to implement multitouch on capacitive screens.

It appears Android uses this freely w/o licensing and Msoft has it licensed.

Android is in danger of losing its head.

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