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08/31/2012 04:47:52 AM · #101 |
| Apple didn't win in Tokyo. |
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08/31/2012 05:54:45 AM · #102 |
Originally posted by Pug-H:
Apple didn't win in Tokyo. |
A completely different case:
Originally posted by Associated Press:
Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea, the world's largest maker of phones, welcomed the Tokyo District Court ruling that its technology to synchronize mobile players with computers did not infringe on Apple patents as confirming âour long-held position.â |
Message edited by author 2012-08-31 05:55:08. |
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09/02/2012 12:04:23 PM · #103 |
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09/02/2012 12:16:41 PM · #104 |
I was going to submit this to the tech satire site BBspot, but they've suspended publication ... :-(
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Kotex Files Amicus Brief In Apple vs. Samsung Suit
âSAN JOSE, California
As the landmark patent trial pitting Apple, the world's "most valuable" company against Samsung, a maker of cell phones and numerous other electronic devices, gets under way, the mountain of papers now unsealed has revealed several surprises. Perhaps none was so surprising as the brief filed by Kotex, manufacturer of "feminine hygiene" products, on behalf of Samsung.
"We admire innovation as much as anyone," commented Sue Stevens, a company spokesperson contacted for a translation of the murky legalese which might be appropriate for a family newspaper. "However, this time Apple is just going too far, and the Board felt the company should step in and try to slow down their progression towards total world domination."
The paperwork seems to support Samsung's contention that Apple, far from owning a patent on certain design features, actually copied those features itself from products previously developed, and even and widely-marketed by other companies. Perhaps borrowing a strategy from Poe's "Purloined Letter," they seem to have deliberately been exceptionally blatant in this practice in the hopes that it would be overlooked.
"I'm told the tipping point came as a result of a routine review of trademark applications," continued Mr. Stevens. "When we found out they were planning to make an extra-big tablet computer, and wanted to call it the Max-iPad, well, that was a wakeup call. After all, our products have always featured a sleek, rectangular shape, with curved sides and rounded corners, and we feel that there would be a substantial chance of consumer confusion between our products and theirs. Since our products cannot play movies or make phone calls, our company would be placed at substantial risk of a catastrophic negative public reaction as a result of this confusion."
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was unavailable for comment. |
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09/02/2012 01:31:48 PM · #105 |
| Not to mention the possibility of litigation over medical issues caused by confused or ill informed users of the new "Max-iPad" LOL. |
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09/14/2012 06:18:52 AM · #106 |
| I find it mildly amusing that Apple sued Samsung becuase their products resemble Apples and then Apple goes and announces their new products that more than resemble Nokias... |
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09/14/2012 06:35:18 AM · #107 |
photos?
thing is no phone looked like an iphone till the iphone came out.... |
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09/14/2012 07:04:43 AM · #108 |
Originally posted by Giles_uk:
photos?
thing is no phone looked like an iphone till the iphone came out.... |
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09/14/2012 09:28:11 AM · #109 |
i h ave to say your grasping at straws there, apple revolutionised mobile phones with their iphone, before that, those nokias are a copy of the iphone so you can really say apple has copied nokia and the 5 just looks like the 4s anyway
its like saying george lucas copied all the books that came out after his first 3 star wars films when he made the star wars prequels 20 years later, it was his original concept.
infact those nokias look like my old ipod nano
this is was realeased by nokia at teh same time as the iphone came out in 2007
Message edited by author 2012-09-14 09:33:54. |
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09/14/2012 09:56:20 AM · #110 |
that's my point. i just find it amusing that apple sued samsung over the shape of their phones when they hardly pioneered the shape, let alone the OS they use which palm came up with over a decade ago.
now there ipods look like the nokia phones.
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09/14/2012 10:02:15 AM · #111 |
Originally posted by mike_311:
Apple goes and announces their new products that more than resemble Nokias... |
Originally posted by Giles_uk:
those nokias are a copy of the iphone |
Originally posted by mike_311:
that's my point. |
Your point is that Apple's new iPod looks like Nokia's copy of an Apple product? Um... yeah. |
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09/14/2012 10:13:34 AM · #112 |
really? nokia copied the iphone?
i dont see any rounded corners. :-P (on the new product)
Message edited by author 2012-09-14 10:13:55. |
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09/14/2012 10:19:37 AM · #113 |
| By golly, you're right. No rounded corners... just like the prior iPod Nano from 2010. |
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09/14/2012 10:24:18 AM · #114 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
By golly, you're right. No rounded corners... just like the prior iPod Nano from 2010. |
touche. |
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