Patents dealing with functionality (unified search in the case of the Nexus) and patents dealing with standards like LTE and 3G that are specifically filed as FRAND patents are very different beasts.
I hope Apple has enough legal cash in the bank to slap these idiots:
“We blatantly copied your years of design and refinement and got a hacked product to market a couple of weeks before you and now we’re going to act like assholes!”
On behalf of everyone who’s had their shit knocked off by a Chinese imitator I’d like to see these idiots slapped down.
^ If anyone has the power to do it in a Chinese court it’s Apple. A whole lot of money flows into China from Apple’s Foxconn contract.
China is smarter than that and almost always sides with the company based in their country. In the long run it’s better for their economy.
Samsung (005930) late last week alleged that jurors in the Apple (AAPL) patent case had improperly relied upon outside information not presented during the trial, thus invalidating the jury’s $1 billion verdict and necessitating a new trial. CNET reports that Samsung’s allegations revolve around jury foreman Velvin Hogan, who said in interviews after the trial that he had used his expertise in patents to guide his fellow jurors’ decisions on what constituted prior art in intellectual property cases. Hogan had been instructed before the trial to make decisions based solely on the law as instructed “and not based on your understanding of the law based on your own cases.”
Who cares what he was instructed to do? The whole point of trial by jury is to let a group of people with their own brains judge the case.
Fun fact: It is a juror’s legal obligation to judge both the law and the case, though they are instructed to be good little drones before the case starts.
Fun Fact: The majority of people are a complete waste of space.
Hey I resemble that.
That’s mind bottling
For all intensive purposes he’s right.
What word did I use incorrectly?
Wouldn’t you like to know?
I could care less
I didn’t want to say I toldaso, but I fuckin toldaso.
I can’t believe the grammer in the last few posts. I am disappoint.
Sales ban overturned today :bigtup:
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