Apple Wins $1 Billion Patent Case
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- qoob
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/2…
This could be very bad for not just Samsung but Android and Google.
- ok_not_ok0
O Snap!
- monolith0
All that needs to be said about this ruling.
Did anyone really think that California jury would rule anything against Apple?
It was impossible for them to even read all checkpoints on the verdict documents in the short time it took them. That means they already knew they would give it to Apple.
Sad day. Consumers and technology industry was set back seriously today.
- prophetone0
innovation to follow, let's hope
- qoob0
- qoob0
The jury found that various Samsung products violated Apple patents covering things like the “bounce back” effect when a user scrolls to the end of a list on the iPhone and iPad, and the pinch-to-zoom gesture that users make when they want to magnify an image. Samsung was also found to have infringed Apple patents covering the physical design of the iPhone.
- qoob0
- inteliboy0
Set back? How?
For some reason, there's this idea that it is Apple who are holding back innovation... that Apple are evil, the patent system is broken, the judge and jury were biased, innovation is fucked etc. How about, just maybe, Samsung shouldn't have ripped off Apple in the first place? Come up with your own ideas and products, define the industry in your own ways. That is innovation. Not looking at what Apple do. Before the iPhone, NO ONE had their head down swiping a finger at a piece of glass, now everyone everywhere on almost every device interact this way.
Though then I guess you can't expect that much from a company that makes cheap TV's and washing machines.
- yeeeah boy.CanHasQBN
- inteliboy apparently never visited south korea..GeorgesII
- yeah i've been to korea - seoul and busan for the film festival. amazing place.inteliboy
- my korean friend (and i gather everyone else) were SUPER proud of samsung.inteliboy
- THEN HOW CAN YOU SAY THEY MAKE CHEAP TV AND WASHING MACHING, THEY EVEN MAKE CAR /caps unlocked :)GeorgesII
- unlocked :)GeorgesII
- lowimpakt0
the problem with the patent system is that it misunderstands innovation and it is really about the power of legal argument.
invention, innovation and diffusion rarely happen in isolation either technically or conceptually even at apple.
also, in these patent wars the arguments over the minute details of interaction can cloud the reality of the wider innovation system around the product.
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- hotroddy0
Does this effect them internationally too? Does jury have international jurisdiction?
- it affects the universei_was
- No... US only (but you can count on other courts listening/watching closely)doktornomore
- GeorgesII0
- Hilarious because by the time the samsung cable existed the iPod cable was too big and out of dateanimatedgif
- lowimpakt0
- not this againkingsteven
- i know.lowimpakt
- f700 was first unveiled feb and shown at cebit 2007kingsteven
- that black banner baited mekingsteven
- drgs0
The point of innovation is progress, so this already assumes that it builds on former achievements -- not to make things as many and as different as possible, but to make things better. It can require going in a completely different direction, but this is not a goal in itself
- GeorgesII0
The point of innovation is progress, so this already assumes that it builds on former achievements -- not to make things as many and as different as possible, but to make things better. It can require going in a completely different direction, but this is not a goal in itself and this is what I believe.
drgs, why did you steal my post. I'll sue you
- GeorgesII0
btw: if anyone interrested here is the detailed verdict
http://www.bgr.com/2012/08/24/ap…
- i_monk0
I read that a quarter of the iPhone's hardware is made by Samsung anyway, so this verdict is no biggie.
- instrmntl0
1 Billion dollars seems a tad excessive.
- mg330
Will people please stop saying Samsung makes crap products all around? Their TV's are consistently some of the best out there. I have two of them and wouldn't have considered anything else.
- true, their products are actually top quality.inteliboy
- I have a Samsung Fleshlight, best electronic gadget that I ever bought, amen.utopian
- good and economic!Miguex
- i bet you have one. there fore. don't talk shit about them. ahaakrok
- SONY makes better TVs. and i don't have one. ;-)akrok
- i love Samsung TVk_temp