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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 03:38 PM EDT |
If any newspaper reports on this, the headline could read "Posner takes
another bite from the Apple" :-)
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Authored by: bugstomper on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 03:42 PM EDT |
Please summarize in the Title box error->correction or s/error/correction/ to
make it easy to scan to see what errors have already been noted.
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Authored by: bugstomper on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 03:43 PM EDT |
Please stay off topic in these threads
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 03:43 PM EDT |
Sorry, couldn't resist. Huawei Ascend G300:
One distinctive and
nifty Huawei addition is a directional lock screen. This allows you to
swipe in
one of four directions -- to either unlock the phone or dive straight into an
app such as the camera or your messages. The default apps are camera, call log,
text
messages or basic unlock. Currently the apps that appear on the lock
screen can't be
customised but Huawei says this feature will be added when the
G300 gets Ice Cream
Sandwich this summer.
cnet reviews
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- Who are we? - Authored by: SLi on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 06:25 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 03:48 PM EDT |
Why did they bother?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 03:51 PM EDT |
My old compaq laptop (pentium 1 days) had a mouse pad that
required one tap or two taps for the equivalent of mouse
clicks. Pentium 1 came out mid to late 90's.
Tapping a "mouse pad" is very much the same as tapping a
screen.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 04:10 PM EDT |
...is that you don't have to try to decide whether their actions are egregious
enough to stop buying their products.
I am typing this on an iPad, and find
it far more useful than the Android
tablets I've tried. Some may disagree,
that's not my point.
I vehemently oppose Apple's actions on patents, and
their positions in the
DMCA and in particular exemptions to the DMCA. At what
point do I stop
using their products and start using products that will reduce
my
productivity?
I have the vain hope that their abuse of the patent
system will bring enough
pressure to force some kind of reform. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: jvillain on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 04:23 PM EDT |
If only the politicians would wake up. The real problem is that the the US makes
IP their top priority in every trade negotiation and pummels any country that
isn't willing to submit. If US IP madness gets firmly entrenched in
international law it may be impossible to ever unwind it. The US needs to fix
their mess before trying to make it the template for every one.[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Henning Makholm on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 05:46 PM EDT |
I like Posner's opinions from the Seventh Circuit pretty well -- they're among
the RSS feeds I try to read all of, even though I'm neither American nor a
lawyer and so shouldn't really care about the subject matter.
But here, here
-- here we see that when he's writing for himself, rather than as part of an
appeals panel where he's speaking for two other judges in addition to himself,
by God that man is a magnificent writer. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Jimbob0i0 on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 06:14 PM EDT |
I was expecting this bit on Groklaw but we seem to have
missed it out...
Apple has an injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Tab and
Samsung Galaxy Nexus pending (in fact I think it should be
final now) due to one of their patents. The patent refers to
searching multiple databases and then 'using heuristics' to
determine the right answer to give from the sources.
This was filed ~2000 and approved ~2004 if I recall
correctly - and they claim Siri implements it.
Allegedly the search on Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0)
violates this and Siri is the core selling point for the
iPhone4S.... (this is the claim made to the court not my
thoughts on it). If a consumer purchases the Galaxy nexus
for this functionality they are lost as an iPhone customer
when they obviously wanted Siri (add sarcasm here) and thus
there's irreparable damage. They had to put up a bond of
~$96million for the injunction but in the grand scheme of
things that's peanuts... it's to the point that the Galaxy
Nexus was removed from the Google Play store where it was
for sale in the US (change to 'coming soon') until this mess
is resolved - tell me that's not harming Google!
Interestingly enough there should be an OTA (over the air)
update coming to standard Galaxy Nexus users that disables
the local search on the device to avoid the patent until
Google manages to get in invalidated.... losing local search
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 08:09 PM EDT |
Unless I misunderstand this concept, one does not have to look at ANY patents,
software or otherwise. There is ample prior art, in mechanical devices, such as
any container that has a cover that has a mechanical device that locks it
closed. Wouldn't that be sufficient prior art to obviate any such patent?
Or, maybe if there is/are such patent/s on such mechanical device/s, couldn't
the owner/s sue Apple?[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 09:28 PM EDT |
If, as Apple argues, "tap to unlock" is infringing of "slide to
unlock", then "tap to unlock" is also prior art for "slide
to unlock". My 2002 Palm Tungsten E has a "keylock" feature which
enables tapping a specified area on the screen to avoid accidental power-on.
This predates the first iPhone (2007) by a significant period. --Don[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 12:30 AM EDT |
Did you wonder why the Judge did that "tentative notice to dismiss' thing?
I did. It made no sense to me at the time.
Now it makes sense. He was trying to flush out Apple's threatened motion to
sever. As it never came, he dismissed, and the case should be over. Now Apple
tries, and Posner slaps it down.[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 03:15 AM EDT |
So PJ,
tell me one thing, if a patent is invalidated in UK for having prior art, cant
the same happen in US too ?? [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 04:34 AM EDT |
His name is Christopher Lloyd ("Great Scott Marty!") who also
played Judge Doom in "Who framed Roger Rabbit".
I assume that the US actor hasn't gone into the UK judiciary,
but it made me chuckle.
Judge Doom pronounces his verdict on stupid patents?[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: cricketjeff on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 07:33 AM EDT |
So many times this nonsense is repeated
That what is true for me's a lie for you
I played the rules but you have clearly cheated
How can you claim that I've not got a clue
My patents are all valid yours are sickly
My products are all new in all details
You better pay me lots of money quickly
I know that in all courts my view prevails
What's that you say the judge is disagreeing?
The stupid fool he must know I am right!
I personally brought life into being
And I alone spun daylight from the night
You cannot claim that I have been obtuse
In claiming gander sauce won't work with goose!
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Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 07:40 AM EDT |
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The following program contains immature subject matter. Viewer discretion is
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 09:41 AM EDT |
http://www.chicagotribune.com/bu
si
ness/breaking/chi-judge-posner-us-patent-system-out-of-sync-
20120705,0,48148
25.story
Posner said some industries, like pharmaceuticals, had a
better
claim to intellectual property protection because of
the enormous investment it
takes to create a successful
drug.
Advances in software and other
industries cost much less,
he said, and the companies benefit tremendously from
being
first in the market with gadgets -- a benefit they would
still get if
there were no software patents.
"It's not clear that we really need
patents in most
industries," he said. Also, devices like smartphones have
thousands of component features, and they all receive legal
protection. "You
just have this proliferation of patents,"
Posner said. "It's a
problem."
PJ said it before, software and patents need to get a
divorce...
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Authored by: BJ on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 06:12 PM EDT |
whatever...
Apple is anal.
What a sick lot!
bjd
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Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 03:46 AM EDT |
Neonode user interface in 2007
"You sweep along the bottom to the top"
as said at 0:21 on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfDMHmlZRLc
Prior art.
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Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 01:26 PM EDT |
The touchpads have had multitouch functionality years before FingerWarts (bought
by Apple in 2005) filed their patent claims in 2001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks.
The patent http://www.google.com/patents/US6002946 seems to fulfill what
FingerWarts have done as prior art but in 1997. But even this cites older
touchpads, whether transparent or not.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 02:03 PM EDT |
"I've become less
conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy" [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 01:23 PM EDT |
I haven't read their patent (and won't just because I think
Apple can suck eggs), but I have a question. In this case,
does Prior Art have to be software related or can it be
hardware?
I ask that, because I've got multiple cameras (both old and
digital) that have sliders for the shutter. You have to
slide the tab over, in order to open the shutter. And since
I bought some of those cameras in 1995, I'd say it's prior.
If the patent system allows them to patent "slide to unlock"
only because it's software, then they need to show that
Android uses the exact same code as their IMNALHO (In My Not
A Lawyer Humble Opinion).
Have a great day:)
Patrick.
P.S. I still have an old Cannon camera (35mm) that uses
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 06:51 AM EDT |
There is a "little" patent on universal search, from 1996.
of course , the original words, like : "at least" became
"several" in the Apple patent, but hell, if simply re-wording
a text is an invention...?!!?
http://www.patentlens.net/patentlens/patents.html?
patnums=US_6078914_A&returnTo=quick.html#tab_0 [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 12:44 PM EDT |
Not to condone potential patent
infringement, but my response is: good for Posner. The mobile patent wars
are out of control. Most of these disputes belong in the marketplace, and
should
be resolved there, rather than wasting scarce court resources by using
them as a
proxy for market competition. [ Reply to This | # ]
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