Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sun Aug 26 13:07:55 CDT 2012
It just goes to show how screweup the US patent system is - and the US legal system :-( On 26 Aug 2012 at 8:26, Jim Lawrence wrote: > Upon some basic investigation into the suit Apple and Samsung filed against > each other and Apple won, it all leaves me wondering > > I first assumed that the case hinged on complex technology that the other > had used and failed to compensate the other for...like one of the companies > had invented Gorilla glass, or the special glue to hold on the glass, or the > diode chip, or miniaturized camera technology, or voice receptors or > miniaturized chips, or a certain type of SD RAM, or their board > configuration or even a certain type of interface or protocol. > > To my amazement it was none of these. > > Did you know the following "technologies" and I use the word with disbelief, > are patented? > > 1. A double tap on a screen to expand the screen. > 2. Bounce-back if scrolling beyond the screen real-estate. > 3. Multiple gestures recognition on the screen. > 4. Ornamental design of white or black on cell phone/tablet case. > (other colors as well) > 5. Rounded corners on phone/tablet design. > 6. Rounded corners on screen icons. > > It is like patenting a handle on a door or a certain height of a chair or > the first Ford being able to patent the paint colour black, on a car. > > Then the whole court case was a setup. The courtroom was less than 10 miles > from Apple's headquarters. The jurors were selected from the immediate area. > As far as I can see the whole event could just as well taken place in an > Apple boardroom with the jurors being Apple employees. Rest assured if any > juror had disagreed with the guilty verdict their future, in Silicon Valley, > would have been very limited. > > IMHO, the whole trial was a joke, a farce and a setup. Samsung did not have > a song of winning or even breaking even. If I had been the judge in the case > I would have laughed them out of court, fined them both substantially for > wasting the courts time and sent them both on their way. > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >