http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...lleging-infringement-of-four-u-s-patents.html
Looks like it is far from over....
Looks like it is far from over....
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...lleging-infringement-of-four-u-s-patents.html
Looks like it is far from over....
It will be an interesting closing of the year with all this happening....
Remember that recent capacitive multi-touch mobile display patent Apple applied for a long time ago...before HTC or any of the other smartphone makers started using the tech...and was recently awarded?
There's really no way for Apple to lose. The display patent is comparative to a nuclear bomb, which they could employ if things go against them.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...lleging-infringement-of-four-u-s-patents.html
Looks like it is far from over....
So what? It shows that Apple wasn't some brilliant inventor that came up with something unique. It shows that that's the direction tech went in and would go even if there was no Apple.
This I addressed here.To quote:
Multi-touch has been around for a loooooong time before Apple used it. But because there's now capacitive screens around it's suddenly something that can be patented?? That's just another example of the idiocy of patents. You take a whole bunch of stuff that existed before, add something that might actually be new, and then you claim the whole thing for yourself as if you came up with *all* of it, not just the one tiny part.