Apple wins
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 24th Aug 2012 23:54 UTC
Legal And just like that, within a matter of days, the jury has reached a verdict in Apple vs. Samsung. The basic gist is simple: Apple's software patents are valid, and many Samsung devices infringe upon them. Apple's iPhone 3G trade dress is valid, and Samsung's Galaxy S line infringes, but other devices did not. Samsung did not infringe Apple's iPad design patent. Apple did not infringe any of Samsung's patents. Apple is awarded a little over $1 billion in damages. Competition lost today, and developers in the United States should really start to get worried - software patents got validated big time today.
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RE: Appeal Coming Soon
by kristoph on Sat 25th Aug 2012 04:47 UTC in reply to "Appeal Coming Soon"
kristoph
Member since:
2006-01-01

Wow, dude, read and then think about what you read before you speak. Otherwise you wind up sounding pretty dumb ...

No big deal, no lower court can ever overturn a Supreme Court ruling. and SCOTUS has said that software as an abstract cannot be patented.

No, it didn't. SCOTUS said that abstract ideas that are not otherwise patentable don't become patentable just because their expressed in software. None of the Apple patents in question represent abstract ideas; their all very utilitarian in nature.

Moreover none of the trade dress patents are in any way 'abstract ideas'.

Not only that the judge unlawfully suppressed evidence that would have destroyed Apple's entire case

No it didn't. The only thing the 'suppression of evidence' that you are talking about would have impacted would be the trade dress part of the suit of which Apple only won for the 3GS.

Even if that whole trade dress piece gets tossed it would have only limited impact on either company (what's a few hundred million to these guys).

no one, not even an Apple fanboy with their limited grasp of logic could ever believe that a company only building a phone for 5 years could hold patents on work other companies have been doing for more than 20 years.

Did you even bother to read which patents Apple is asserting here? Because if you did you would understand how totally stupid that statement is.

But hey, Apple killed itself in the China market, people here don't accept dirty dealing like the kind Apple has displayed, I see empty Apple stores with most people crowded around the Samsung product displays.

Apple is 'killing itself' with a 48% y-o-y growth. I am sure Tim Cook cries every time he looks at that number.

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RE[2]: Appeal Coming Soon
by unclefester on Sat 25th Aug 2012 05:12 in reply to "RE: Appeal Coming Soon"
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2007-01-13

Apple is 'killing itself' with a 48% y-o-y growth. I am sure Tim Cook cries every time he looks at that number.

Apple is getting absolutely slaughtered outside North America. The iPhone market can't exist without massive carrier subsidies. Hence the frivolous lawsuits.

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RE[3]: Appeal Coming Soon
by jared_wilkes on Sat 25th Aug 2012 05:24 in reply to "RE[2]: Appeal Coming Soon"
jared_wilkes Member since:
2011-04-25

Apple did much better than anyone else in the picture last time they were "dominated" internationally ('81-'84, Microsoft rose to dominance under DOS, not Windows) and weathered the storm for 15 years to lead the next wave.

Would you really wager that there is any other player in the game (particularly any that are not Google) more likely to outlast a 15-20 year storm of dominance by another platform than Apple?

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RE[3]: Appeal Coming Soon
by kristoph on Sat 25th Aug 2012 14:57 in reply to "RE[2]: Appeal Coming Soon"
kristoph Member since:
2006-01-01

Apple is getting absolutely slaughtered outside North America. The iPhone market can't exist without massive carrier subsidies. Hence the frivolous lawsuits.


Are you like trying to convince yourself or someone else here?

1) Apple earns almost 60% of it's IPhone revenue from international sales.

2) International iPhone sales are the growth driver, while NA sales are slowing as the market saturates.

3) Apple's primary lawsuits are all in US. Software patents and trade dress patents are much weaker outside the US and so - other that the circus in Germany - really have no tangible impact on international sales.

But feel free to believe whatever helps you sleep at night.

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RE[2]: Appeal Coming Soon
by jared_wilkes on Sat 25th Aug 2012 05:18 in reply to "RE: Appeal Coming Soon"
jared_wilkes Member since:
2011-04-25

I love how the rhetoric shifts "submission" of evidence to "suppression." When Samsung was denied, it was often because Samsung was pursuing a new theory/narrative several months late, without notice. When they avoided "suppression" of evidence, the fanboys thought it shifted the case to a slam dunk -- when in reality it was weak sauce.

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