Forum Home
PC World Chat
Thread ID: 127698	2012-11-07 20:52:00	More Patent Trolling	Geek4414 (12000)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1311067	2012-11-07 20:52:00	Shame to see patent trolls extorting money, but good to see a Patent troll getting a taste from a real patent troll ... Apple ordered to pay $368 million after losing case to patent holding firm www.theverge.com About time for some common sense to prevail, hope more junk patents get thrown out ... Apple's bounce-back patent rejected by the Patent Office www.theverge.com www.forbes.com Motorola Says Wisconsin Court Throws Out Apple Patent Suit allthingsd.com Apple’s slide-to-unlock patent ruled invalid in HTC court case www.geek.com	Geek4414 (12000)
1311068	2012-11-07 21:10:00	About time for some common sense to prevail, hope more junk patents get thrown out ... nicely put :) The before mentioned company is well known for it. Just imagine how devices may be and what they could do if these company's actually stopped suing one another over and got on with development . (great Tui's Ad) :D	wainuitech (129)
1311069	2012-11-07 21:45:00	Just imagine how devices may be and what they could do if these company's actually stopped suing one another over and got on with development . Yeah we would be streets ahead if it wasn't for the pathetic patent system in the USA.	mikebartnz (21)
1311070	2012-11-07 22:05:00	nicely put :) Just imagine how devices may be and what they could do if these company's actually stopped suing one another over and got on with development . There would be a few lawyers lining up for the dole :D And devices would be 1/2 the price they are now.	Iantech (16386)
1311071	2012-11-07 22:49:00	On the lighter side of things :D As far as I know they haven't put a patent on the word "pad", if they did imagine the fun that would come out with This crazy Patent (inventorspot.com). :lol: :waughh:	wainuitech (129)
1311072	2012-11-07 23:57:00	On the lighter side of things :D As far as I know they haven't put a patent on the word "pad", if they did imagine the fun that would come out with This crazy Patent (inventorspot.com). :lol: :waughh: :clap:clap	mikebartnz (21)
1311073	2012-11-08 00:46:00	On the lighter side of things :D As far as I know they haven't put a patent on the word "pad", if they did imagine the fun that would come out with This crazy Patent (inventorspot.com). :lol: :waughh: If they patented "pod" we would not be able to grow peas? Ken	kenj (9738)
1311074	2012-11-08 09:51:00	They've gotta be kidding ... Apple finally gets its patent on a rectangle with rounded corners www.theverge.com There's been a lot of talk over the last couple of years — especially by Samsung during the course of its recent patent infringement trial — that Apple has obtained design patent coverage on rectangular devices with rounded corners. While that may not have been true before, it is now. The US Patent and Trademark Office issued patent no. D670,286 to Apple yesterday and it really does cover the outer edge shape of a device. There's no other way to look at it. As we've explained before, the scope of a design patent is defined by the drawings, and the solid lines are what counts —the dashed lines are just there for context. As you can see below, the 'D286 patent has a lot of gratuitous context but just a single solid line defining what is being protected. 4471 Previous design patents on the iPad and iPhone have included at least one additional feature in solid lines — like the home button, the back surface contour, the bezel shape, the side profile, or the edge-to-edge screen. This one ignores all of that and simply focuses on the shape of that peripheral edge. It's a broad patent. Really broad. Granted, an argument can be made that the horizontal and vertical lengths of the solid edge line in the drawings limits the patent coverage to a specific proportional design that excludes tablets with different aspect ratios, but you wouldn't want that to be your primary defense. IT IS POSSIBLE FOR A PATENT TO BE TOO BROAD TO ACTUALLY USE Will Apple ever use this patent against its competitors? Maybe, but there's an inherent downside to asserting a patent like this: it's vulnerable to invalidity arguments. The narrower a patent is the harder it is to find prior art devices or publications that have everything you need to knock it out. Conversely, the broader the patent the easier it is to come up with something that a judge or jury (or even the patent office) can use to invalidate it. Even though Apple submitted hundreds of prior art documents while this patent was being reviewed by the USPTO, it sure feels like a weapon too fragile for battle. It could very well just be a let's-see-what-we-can-get patent with no real offensive future. We'll see. 4472 4473	Geek4414 (12000)
1311075	2012-11-08 10:32:00	This just shows up the USA to be a complete joke when they allow crap like this.	mikebartnz (21)
1311076	2012-11-08 10:51:00	Rounded rectangles are everywhere www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.txt Steve suddenly got more intense. "Rectangles with rounded corners are everywhere! Just look around this room!". And sure enough, there were lots of them, like the whiteboard and some of the desks and tables. Then he pointed out the window. "And look outside, there's even more, practically everywhere you look!". He even persuaded Bill to take a quick walk around the block with him, pointing out every rectangle with rounded corners that he could find.	Geek4414 (12000)
1 2 3