Apple triumphs over Samsung, awarded over $1 billion damages

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Originally Posted by henners88

Thanks Captain, see ioan now do you see? :p

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LTE is a technology not a shape, so I'm not sure how you can compare them.

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Originally Posted by Malbec

ioan there's nothing wrong with patenting appearances, in fact there's a separate patenting category just for that.

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I know, but the existence of such is an affront to common sense, and it is a bad sign for our society.

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Originally Posted by Malbec

nor is Apple the only one patenting various appearances as their own, Samsung does it too as they have a brand they want to protect from others. Anyone who doesn't is simply failing to protect their brand.

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Everyone who doesn't might have more common sense and more trust in the value of their product which isn't it's shape and appearance. Seriously 99% of the mobile phones have the same rectangle shape with rounded corners, it's been like this for ages now. What need to patent something which is universal anyway? Just so that you can have those with better technology blocked by 'justice' courts?

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Originally Posted by Malbec

Try building a car with a chrome kidney grille, four equal sized round headlamps and a prominent Hoffmeister kink in the window line and see how long it takes for some legal heavies from Bavaria to threaten you.

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Why would I do that when there is nicer design to come up with?

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Originally Posted by Malbec

BTW Apple's patent isn't about rectangles and rounded corners, its about specific radii and aspect ratios. I agree its utterly petty but simplifying what these legal conflicts are about doesn't do anyone justice.

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And when I checked the aspect ratio, the size and the radii on the Samsung tablets and phones aren't the same as on the Apple.
Difficult to understand how did a German court rule that Samsung copied Apple, other then if the case was set up by Apple with heavy financial arrangements behind the doors.

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Originally Posted by henners88

Yeah, bound to be pulled and never released now haha.

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They might release it, but LTE is the buzz word about iPhone 5, in fact it's its biggest upgrade over iPhone 4S or whatever the previous one is called.

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Originally Posted by henners88

The little details eh? lol

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That's all you can come up with? Lame.

I guess we all know who Apple is suing next:

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Originally Posted by Daniel

So there you have it, definitive evidence that there was prior art for this whole rectangle with rounded corners thing and yet Apple still got BS patents for it. Seriously, how can you get freaking patents for something as ridiculous as the general shape of a device.

Apple are just terrorists. Sure they don't kill anyone other than the workers at Foxconn who work in crappy conditions but they're still terrorists.

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Oh no, Daniel, you're wrong. Apple is a sensible company with amazing innovations like rectangular shapes with rounded corners, and touchscreen *gasp*. I think it's a smart move to sue your closest competitor in order to make more money. You're not going to beat them in the areas of price, features and technology, so might as well take the legal route.

Imagine if Motorola had patented their first ever flip phone, the startac in 1996:

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How much money might they have made by suing virtually every phone company on planet earth who copied the flip design from then on!

Stupid company.

Is this dummy anybodies?

I think its about time you guys just get over it. Apple are not terrorists and they are not anymore immoral than any other company out there. Samsung are suing Apple now for yet another petty infringement yet you Android/Windows 'fanboys' are just intent on embarrassing yourselves here with ill thought out posts going over the same old drivel.

Relax and enjoy what you've bought.

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Originally Posted by henners88

Is this dummy anybodies?

I think its about time you guys just get over it. Apple are not terrorists and they are not anymore immoral than any other company out there. Samsung are suing Apple now for yet another petty infringement yet you Android/Windows 'fanboys' are just intent on embarrassing yourselves here with ill thought out posts going over the same old drivel.

Relax and enjoy what you've bought.

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Are you here online like 24/7?

And what's your problem? I'm actually with Apple on this. Didn't you see my post above? Great job on suing Samsung. I hope they sue other companies as well.

I just hope mother nature doesn't sue Apple for copying the fruit as their logo.

Google should release an Android version with hexagonal tiles with rounded edges and they're all laughing :)

Wait, just let me take out a patent on that first... damn, too late :dozey:

Galaxy S3 on the Apple target list?

BBC News - Apple seeks sales ban on more Samsung handsets

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Originally Posted by henners88

Is this dummy anybodies?

I think its about time you guys just get over it. Apple are not terrorists and they are not anymore immoral than any other company out there. Samsung are suing Apple now for yet another petty infringement yet you Android/Windows 'fanboys' are just intent on embarrassing yourselves here with ill thought out posts going over the same old drivel.

Relax and enjoy what you've bought.

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It's ignorant drivel like that which means I don't really post on here anymore. Whilst I agree with Malbec that companies should be able to protect their product from being copied 100%, you simply shouldn't be able to patent a shape with some corners. You (henners) are typical of the ignorant masses who were selected for jury duty and either through ignorance or being paid off (I hope they were paid off because I'd hate for anyone to be quite this stupid), come to ridiculous decisions like this one. Did anyone actually read the link that Dave posted? It was hilarious miscarriage of justice!

Anyone can patent a shape, go out there and actually create some technology and then patent that.

There are certain things which are meant to be a certain way. Wheels are always going to be round, it's just the best way for it and phones were always going to be rectangular because it fits the human hand best. You shouldn't be able to patent things which are merely a result of physics and the human form. If Apple want to develop a glass which doesn't break when dropped and doesn't scratch at all and then patent it then that's fine by me, they've done some work and deserve to make money out of it and have their invention protected. But to be able to patent a shape and then sue another company over it is a gross misuse of the patent system.

Apple are terrorists. Companies are scared to release anything that's remotely like an iPhone or an iPad and contrary to the ridiculously badly thought out article that race aficionado posted, this doesn't mean more choice, it simply means a different choice.

Apple has been lazy with regards to their iPhone and iPad lines so don't worry, they'll be overtaken and as soon as it becomes popular opinion that a Windows Phone or Windows 8 tablet or Android phone or Android Tablet is better than Apples share price will drop like a brick. It might take 6 months, it might take 5 years, but it's going to happen and it will be saweeeeeeet when it does :)