On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Miroslav Pokorny < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > 2011/3/11 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > > >> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Anyone can copy a UI anyway >> >> >> Er... no. Tivo and Apple are two good examples showing that UI's can be >> very, very protected. And by UI, I mean both the graphical and interaction >> aspects. >> >> >> -- >> Cédric >> >> > I was under the impression that multi touch was not a part of android > solely because Eric Schmidt was on the board of Apple, once he resigned/left > there was no problem in copying. Is there any practical limitation that > prevents Android from copying the pixels rather than just general paradigm ? > The only thing i can see that prevents Android is branding, they want to > look different rather than any legal protection. > > The only example i can think of a look being copied on a major scale and > causing some problems is the Great Wall copy of the Fiat Panda. Even so it > appears only Europe has done anything there is no mention of similar bans in > other parts of the world that typically respect copyright, software patents, > trademarks etc and similar laws. I have heard on the interwebs that GW have > done similar copying for other car products in their line and yet that does > not seem to hamper their exporting. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Panda > Chinese copy controversy > > On December 2006, Fiat considered taking legal action against > Chinese<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China>automaker > Great > Wall Motor <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_Motor> for the > company's Peri <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_Peri>, which is a > copy of the Panda's > design.[12]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Panda#cite_note-11> > > In July 2008, Fiat successfully sued Great Wall and had the Peri banned > from importation into Europe. In addition, the court order ruled for Great > Wall to pay Fiat a 15,000 euro fine for the first Peri imported, and an > additional 50,000 euros for every subsequent car that was > imported.[13]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Panda#cite_note-12> > > However, on October 2009, Great Wall Motor sued Fiat, accusing the latter > of espionage <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage>. In the lawsuit, > Great Wall claims that "Fiat once instigated espionage to prowl into its > research center and take photos of Peri small car that was still under > developed > > Continuing from my bit about the Great Wall Peri http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080718/COPY01/829890072/-1/chicgo&template=printart contains an image showing the "differences" in the peri and the panda which must amount to less than a few percentage points. Before the sharks byte im only mentioning this as respecting patents goes hand in hand w/ trademarks, commercial secrets, copyright etc. You can even buy the Peri here( Australia) which is disgraceful and totally unexpected as Australia is definitely not a place i would expect this sort of thing to be allowed by the government. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
