I guess one effect of the verdict will be that OEM will be working more closely with Google and Use Stock Android as it is . As mentioned by Ryan at Extreme Tech http://www.extremetech.com/computing/135108-how-the-apple-samsung-case-could-push-oems-closer-to-google-and-stock-android
this will be a good thing for developers I guess and it will control fragmentation to a certain extent . what do you think ? On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Jeff Kesselman <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes Anatoly is correct. before the last revision of the us copyright act > you could lose it by not properly labeling, but we're now in compliance > with Berne and the international community (more or less, so called "moral > rights" which arc,ear in European law at a bit of a grey area in us law.) > AIR that last revision was in the 80s so don't quote me. > > Americans often confuse copyright, trademark and patent. That confusion > is sometimes played upon by unscrupulous companies making matters worse. > While all 3 are intellectual property laws, what they protect and what the > protections are are all very very different. > Sent from my iPad > > On Aug 28, 2012, at 10:44 PM, anatoly <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created not > published therefore copyright notice is not necessary > for the protection though it might help in court. > > Samsung infringed patents not copyright and it's something different. > No offence but you guys should better read what this is all about plus > some copyright basics. > > One of the patents infringed in this case is rubber-banding. > It's a feature so the software implementation is irrelevant. > > > Patents, trademarks and copyrights is all about intellectual property that > should be respected as any other private property. > > > > > On Sunday, August 26, 2012 7:26:38 PM UTC+3, jtoolsdev wrote: > >> I think you mean "software patents". We all hold "software copyrights" >> unless you forgot to put that little copyright notice on app. Software >> back in the dawn of "tech time" an attorney figured out that the Patent >> Office didn't have a clue when it came to software patents and started >> patenting stuff that is just computer logic. And that should have never >> been allowed. >> >> On 08/25/2012 08:36 PM, John Coryat wrote: >> > All this is just a lot of thrust-and-parry. Samsung got kicked in the >> guts >> > but that doesn't mean it's going to impact Android directly. It may, as >> > their statement suggested, increase costs and decrease choice for the >> > consumers. All this patent fighting is doing nothing for the ecosystem. >> > It's just draining capital that might be used for something good and >> peeing >> > it down the drain (aka lawyers). Too bad about that. >> > >> > What the US needs to do is end software copyrights. They stifle >> innovation >> > and increase costs for everyone. >> > >> > -John Coryat >> > >> > On Saturday, August 25, 2012 10:29:43 PM UTC-5, Michael Leung wrote: >> >> hi all >> >> i just read the news about Apple will win the war of patent from >> samsung. >> >> do you think this event will impact to the future of android. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Michael Leung >> >> http://www.itblogs.info >> >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-discuss/-/IT-v1qItA9QJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > -- Prashant "If someone's using a PC to demo the Next Big Thing... then it's not the next big thing."~Russell Beattie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
