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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 05:08 AM EDT |
Apple launched their strike and the same weapons are being used against them.
Apple could and probably will find itself attacked with it's own precedent if
it does win in the EU and rightly so.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: jbb on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 05:27 AM EDT |
Apple tries to put itself in a monopoly position by suing Samsung for billions
of dollars over non-essential smartphone and tablet patents.
While launching
that assault, Apple refuses to pay Samsung for use of its essential patents and
then complains to the EU that Samsung is being anti-competitive.
Here is
what Techdirt had to say about Apple's
strategy:
In a scene straight out of Bizarro World, Apple, Inc.'s
(AAPL) lawyers are crying foul about Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. and recent
Google Inc. acquisitions Motorola's allegedly "anticompetitive" use of
patents.
[...] Regardless of what Mr. Mueller says, it's hard to dispute
that the "rules" of F/RAND are largely community dictated and ambiguous. This
is clearly a highly specialized case in which one company is using questionable
claims (e.g. the ownership of all modern smart phone and tablet designs) to try
to dictate its will on the market and grant itself a monopoly. Whether the
victims still have to bow down and offer their attacker F/RAND licensing
is certainly debatable.
[...] This isn't the first time that Apple has
accused competitors over something it itself is doing. Apple chief executive
and co-founder, Steven P. Jobs has bragged about his mastery of stealing ideas
from others, stating [video], "Picasso had a saying - 'Good artists copy, great
artists steal.' And we have always been shameless about stealing great
ideas."
But faced with large touch-screen competitors to his iPhone and
iPad, the CEO and Apple's lawyers cried foul, accusing these rivals of
"slavishly" copying the company's intellectual
property.
--- Our job is to remind ourselves that there are
more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
-- Alan Kay [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: tknarr on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 11:57 AM EDT |
Well, so far the "anti-competitive behavior" seems to be expecting Apple to
either pay royalties on basically the same terms as everyone else using those
patents or cease selling devices that use those patents. But that's exactly what
patents are supposed to do, that's the whole point of that "legal monopoly"
thing. Apple's problem seems to be that, unlike other entities making
smartphones, Apple has no essential patents to bring to the table that Samsung
needs to license in return and they're whining that the cash price they need to
pay is so much higher than everyone else who's offsetting some of that price by
offering licenses to their patents in return. But that's like the guy with no
trade-in whining that he's having to pay so much more for a new car than the guy
trading in a 2-year-old low-mileage car for a newer model.
It reeks very
much of Apple's outrage in the Brazil iPhone trademark case. Apple's problem
wasn't that trademarks were protected, Apple loves trademark protection. It was
that *gasp* their trademark was protected and belonged to a company that
had the temerity to register it 7 years before Apple released it's first iPhone
and now somehow believed that it had the right to keep using it and keep Apple
from using it. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 01:38 PM EDT |
Evil Evil Samsung, trying to steal Apples hard earned technology!
Why, Apple went to all the trouble to develop BSD, and invent round corners for
it (BSD never worked with square corners) and condensed all that innovation into
a phone. Then Samsung came along, STOLE android, used that to unfairly sue
Apple, and now are trying to steal BSD too!
Troll mode=OFF
Hmmmm... no I didn't get a thrill... or even a sense of superiority. So what is
the attraction? Must just be a fanbois thing.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 01 2013 @ 07:23 AM EDT |
The two aren't comparable. In the EU Samsung are being accused
of forcing Apple to pay over the odds, thereby abusing it's
FRAND license, In the US Apple are refusing to pay anything,
regardless of what Samsung are demanding.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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