Stan, I respectfully disagree. Beside the matters of letter of law
(royalties, etc) Apple simply invented very round wheel. Thumbs up to them.
Now, in modern world innovation and true knowledge sharing exists only
personal level. Oftentimes my friends and I (not working for the same
company) would discuss an issue or two of our trade. Admittedly, not
oftentimes enough, I might add here.
In terms of corporations this does not happen this way. Samsung played
dirty and got burned. Now they have to stand in the corner and everyone
is shaking their finger at them.
But what happened really? Apple did something good and they were not
able to hold it to themselves. The real question - in modern world of
inventions that are mostly virtual (software engines are engines but
that's just a figure of speech, unlike car engines, for example) patent
system requires serious adjustment, don't you agree, Stan?
Boris
P.S. As a recall Ford Focus was the very first Golf-class vehicle that
featured fully independent multi-link rear suspension. Tell me, does it
mean that Hyundai for example had to pay patent royalties to Ford in
order to use in their i30?
On 8/25/2012 10:06 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:
Remember long long ago? Like maybe 5 years ago? Many many different
sizes and styles of cell phones on the market. Then the iPhone came
out and most other manufactures panicked and tried to copy instead of
building their own smartphone. This series of cases is far from over,
but I would hope that the end result is awareness that patent and
copyright laws do matter. Followed by greater investment in R&D to
build innovative products rather than investment in advertising to
sell knock-off products.
stan
On Aug 25, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Boris Liberman wrote:
On 8/25/2012 1:52 AM, Darren Addy wrote:
Live blogging as it is being read:
http://live.theverge.com/apple-samsung-verdict-live/
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_21356424/live-blog-verdict-apple-samsung-patent-trial
Looking like a HUGE win for Apple and a huge setback for Samsung.
No matter who's right and who's wrong, the end user, that is you or
me will eventually suffer the consequences...
Naively, I am wondering if having scored with Samsung, will Apple
attack the Big Man - The ElGoog?
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