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Apple writes to its German fans the bad news:



Apple believes Motorola's patent is invalid and is appealing the decision.





a) The described product or service clearly violates the patent





Angry iPhone owner



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The patent involved in this ruling is 

Source: Apple

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By testerguy on 2/24/2012 1:55:19 PM , Rating: -1
Now, in the interests of being impartial, Jason must write a further 5 articles explaining how Motorola is trolling, and how this cannot continue. He must research former patents and publish diagrams proving that there is prior art. He will find CEO of companies patenting said prior art encouraging them to sue Motorola...

Don't hold your breath..

By generosity9 on 2/24/2012 2:01:36 PM , Rating: 5
Here's the problem. It was Apple (the CEO) who stated that they were going thermonuclear war on Android. It was Apple who initiated lawsuits around the world with about half a dozen global companies. It was Apple who villainized its competitors, using language that doesn't even apply to patent law, like 'stealing our inventions'. Infringement is not stealing. How is the author obligated to be 'impartial' to who is clearly the antagonizer? You can go read AppleInsider or CultofApple if you want the Apple-biased story.

By Cheesew1z69 on 2/24/2012 2:21:41 PM , Rating: 1
You will not be able to rationalize with this one, the Apple force is strong with him.

By retrospooty on 2/24/2012 3:56:59 PM , Rating: 2

Exactly... So tired of the hypocritical asinine attitude coming from Apple. "You cant copy what we copied. We invented that" ... Just make product dammit, get out of the courtroom and invent something.

By testerguy on 2/25/12, Rating: 0
By retrospooty on 2/27/2012 11:12:49 AM , Rating: 2
If you werent so narrow, you might see that it isnt OK. But Apple started it.

If I am against violence, and you punch someone in the face for no good reason, and then they punch you back, I will speak out against you. I don't agree that punching you back was a good course of action, but that fact is you startyed it and you deserve it. That is all this is about.

If I am incorrect and Apple didnt start all of this legal non-sense and Google, Samsung, HTC or Moto did, then I I would very much like to see links showing proof. It all must be available, legal cases have dates. If that is the case I will humbly apologize.














By Tony Swash on 2/24/12, Rating: -1
By sprockkets on 2/24/2012 6:55:50 PM , Rating: 2
As quoted by a third party after he was dead and he was dying and in a great deal of pain when he was supposed to have said it. I don't know about you but just stubbing my toe has caused me to say things I wouldn't have otherwise said.

So we went to the real story of SJ giving an interview about what happened btw him and the ex CEO of google that day years ago to he said that on his deathbed? Good one.

I'm sure having an axe to grind had nothing to do with Google voice being kicked out of the app store for no reason whatsoever.

The strategy will probably work and Microsoft's efforts with WP7 shows it's possible to build competent alternative mobile platforms without copying Apple so there is life after copying.

Bull Sht. WP7 infringes on at least 6 major new patents of apple, like the multi-touch ones, the multi-touch gestures, the slide to unlock patent and others. Apple won't sue MS because 1% market share isn't worth spending money over. What? Prior agreements? No proof of such for their new multi-touch patents.

Meanwhile I have to say this made me chuckle - there are some areas where Android has a huge lead over iOS and which demonstrates the true advantage of being 'open'

Meanwhile, I had a "chuckle" of more apps getting through apple's "vetting" and ignoring their polices of address book privacy. That's 4 major failures to do its job now, with the first one outing the ipad before release due to an app that phoned home device info.

By testerguy on 2/25/12, Rating: 0
By sprockkets on 2/25/2012 9:08:37 AM , Rating: 2
Honestly, I don't know why you guys go on such tangents. What was or wasn't said by any CEO is of no relevance whatsoever to the legal merit of their court cases.

No it isn't. But since we didn't say it was, nice strawman.

It wasn't just Google's VOIP app which was banned. There were several, from different companies. 'Having an axe to grind' is therefore clearly not the reason.

Other than the fact that there was no official explanation given except "We haven't banned Google Voice, we are studying it", after already approving it months earlier. What a coincidence, it happened right as soon as SJ came back to work.

Sounds like Apple is in for a big pay day, then? That is, if Windows phones ever increase to become even a minor player in this industry. Of course, Apple isn't innovative so I don't know how they came up with Multi-touch on the original iPhone.

They didn't, but the stupid USPTO granted them the patents anyhow. Guess what? I just learned yesterday that the iphone wasn't the first phone with multi-touch gestures either.

While this is worded so poorly to render it almost completely unreadable to most people, I sense that there is some attempt at a veiled insult to the fact that Apple actually has standards which must be followed in its app store, the very thing leading many industry experts, and people such as Charlie Miller to define iOS as far more secure than Android?

Yep, apple has app guidelines and rules, and apps get in all the time that violate them. What are those morons doing when they rubber stamp that approval on apps anyhow. (sic)

By testerguy on 2/27/12, Rating: 0
By testerguy on 2/25/12, Rating: 0
By Peter898 on 2/25/2012 10:02:00 AM , Rating: 2
And lets not forget :
It was apple who stole Xerox's teevee-set before Bill managed to steal it !!

By ilt24 on 2/27/2012 8:27:39 AM , Rating: 1
And lets not forget : It was apple who stole Xerox's teevee-set before Bill managed to steal it !!

What you seem to have forgotten or never knew is that Xerox and Apple made a deal, where Apple got use of what they were shown at Xerox PARC and Xerox was able to buy Apple Stock Pre IPO.

The sleazy thing Apple did years later and Xerox to them court over was filing for patents on some of the GUI stuff from Xerox.

By sprockkets on 2/24/2012 2:37:55 PM , Rating: 3
He did that yesterday, dumbass appletard.

By testerguy on 2/25/12, Rating: 0
