Apple Successfully Gets ITC to Ban Certain HTC Phones

[supall]

Wait, so is the issue selecting the number and it automatically opens up the next app? If so, what if you clicked on the number and implemented a stop-gap with copy/open/search or whatever? Would that be the correct work around to this patent?

 

[scuba dave]

[citation][nom]phasmantis[/nom]Even as a clear apple fan boy, how can you be happy about a step back in convenience for users? If anything, this puts a nail in the coffin to NOT by Apple for me (and i was considering the iPhone4) because of stupid shit like this.[/citation]

Oh yes, lets try to make adult arguments right after stereotypical childish remarks. >.> Now, how can I be happy? I'm not. In no way at all.. Things should be easier for the people, however when "the people" have made the system we all try to use to *our* own benefit.. How can I hate on another for doing the same. How about doing things like a voting adult and changing things, or working like hell to do just that.. Instead of whining on a forum about it like a high school kid? As I said in example.. Google paid 2.4% tax in 2010.. I think everyone would agree that's insane. Did you do anything about that? Have you done anything about the broken patent system? Probably not.. except to comment on a tiny forum, on a tiny website, or two, about it. Stop throwing insults you can't possibly backup with reality, and be productive. I want changes, and I'm actively working at them. FYI, it's a redic uphill battle.. 🙁

 

[digitalzom-b]

[citation][nom]scuba dave[/nom]Oh yes, lets try to make adult arguments right after stereotypical childish remarks. >.> Now, how can I be happy? I'm not. In no way at all.. Things should be easier for the people, however when "the people" have made the system we all try to use to *our* own benefit.. How can I hate on another for doing the same. How about doing things like a voting adult and changing things, or working like hell to do just that.. Instead of whining on a forum about it like a high school kid? As I said in example.. Google paid 2.4% tax in 2010.. I think everyone would agree that's insane. Did you do anything about that? Have you done anything about the broken patent system? Probably not.. except to comment on a tiny forum, on a tiny website, or two, about it. Stop throwing insults you can't possibly backup with reality, and be productive. I want changes, and I'm actively working at them. FYI, it's a redic uphill battle..[/citation]

If change was possible, I'd try harder for it. Sadly I've given up because I don't have the millions of dollars it takes to influence a vote in the senate...

 

[freggo]

"tap a phone number in an email or text and immediately bring up the phone's dialer application"

Sounds to me like a special case of a HyperLink; and I am rather sure APPLE did not invent those.
I am so sick and tired of hearing Apple followed by "Lawsuit".
I don't care what this company 'invents' next, I am not interested in being associated with any of their products.

 

[Anomalyx]

[citation][nom]leeashton[/nom]And I bet EVERYONE on this site has an apple product, (i have never and will never) so if you do you are f**king over other companys by buying crapple products![/citation]
Nope. My household owns zero Apple products. I don't have to worry about my wife bringing one home either. To us, Apple products aren't even considered an option when we're shopping for electronics. Tablets? Walk right past the Apple counter - we consider the Samsung Galaxy to be the high-end standard to measure others against. MP3 Player? Make sure our next phone can play them. Phone? Pick the best Android. PCs? Apples aren't real computers - we buy parts and put them together into Linux servers and Windows desktops. Makes for a much more Personal Computer than one you can't modify.

 

[Katzie]

you know that little bar on top of the android phone, or on top of the mac OS, or on the bottom of the windows OS, and many other things, yeah, I am going to patent that as a bar that holds information. its new and innovative and I thought of it first when the mayans ruled.

 

[spookyman]

[citation][nom]digitalzom-b[/nom]I actually don't own any apple products. I'm glad, because of douchebaggery like this.[/citation]
Yes I do...

An old Apple IIe.

It was made in the USA and still works.

 

[del35]

[Dubbed a "data tapping patent" by FOSS Patents, the patent in question describes a technology that allows users to interact with phone numbers and other types of formatted data in an unstructured document in order to bring up another program/quote]

Quite shocking that something as common as this can be patented. It is also a trivial programming feat to highlight a number that looks like a telephone and call an application like Skype if you desire to dial the number. This has been done for years. How could a parasitic company like Apple and its legion of morononic fanboys consider this to be a property of Apple is beyond any rational imagination.

The other day I saw a documentary called "The Future of Food" that paints a bleak picture of the patenting industry. Can you imagine that food industry giants like Monsanto actually patent things like
corn, and grass? And other companies patent parts of the human body.... This is the end of the march of technology.

Apple amasses unimaginable wealth from defrauding moronic technologically backwards people and then uses the booty to patent and litigate over the most mundane things.

This is hell. Apple you are despicable and deserve the the worse. You have crossed the Rubicon.

 

[del35]

And I bet EVERYONE on this site has an apple product, (i have never and will never) so if you do you are f**king over other companys by buying crapple products!

Unfortunately during one of my bad moments, I purchased an iPod . I never take it out of the house though as I am ashamed to be seen with it. Carrying Apple products is like an engineer being seen in public reading a book with the title: "How to Add and Multiply".

Not only are people who buy Apple products technologically clueless. They are also dumb for having parted with money they could have used to buy a superior product. Yes I admit that I acted stupidly when I bought that iPod and allow myself for a few weeks to become a prisoner of iTune.

 

[techy74]

A 'link' or a 'gesture', how can they really claim that as theirs? How can they claim something som generic? it's like Gm claiming they own 'turn the key forward to start the car'.

Apple go and make a better product, emply programmers not lawyers.

 

[stalker7d7]

Somebody should make a company, name it Orange, then make am mp3 player called the uPod. Wait a while and I guarantee Apple will sue you for infringing upon there rights to use fruits for names and letters before words...

 

[monsta]

Apple you bore me to tears , keep it up and people will hate you more and more and not buy your crappy products.

 

[t_wilson]

[citation][nom]stalker7d7[/nom]Somebody should make a company, name it Orange, then make am mp3 player called the uPod. Wait a while and I guarantee Apple will sue you for infringing upon there rights to use fruits for names and letters before words...[/citation]
There is a mobile carrier named Orange, and a Google search for uPod will produce a surprisingly high number of results. At least it was to me.

 

[rooseveltdon]

There needs to be a change in the way intellectual property laws are handled this is getting out of hand

 

[husker]

So the text hotspot is now an apple patent. Don't look now Tom's, but every blue text link in the article above appears to be an apple lawsuit-in-waiting.

 

[zybch]

[citation][nom]stalker7d7[/nom]Somebody should make a company, name it Orange, then make am mp3 player called the uPod. Wait a while and I guarantee Apple will sue you for infringing upon there rights to use fruits for names and letters before words...[/citation]
Don't you mean 'oPod'?

 

[ko2n777]

Why does Apple make it so hard to like them?

 

[guardianangel42]

[citation][nom]supall[/nom]Wait, so is the issue selecting the number and it automatically opens up the next app? If so, what if you clicked on the number and implemented a stop-gap with copy/open/search or whatever? Would that be the correct work around to this patent?[/citation]

I don't think so. The problem seems to be more about the concept and not the implementation. From what I understand Apple patented the idea, not the method so simply having a feature that implements the same idea would infringe on their patent.

I could be completely wrong though. That's just how I understand it.

 

[rantoc]

[citation][nom]husker[/nom]So the text hotspot is now an apple patent. Don't look now Tom's, but every blue text link in the article above appears to be an apple lawsuit-in-waiting.[/citation]

It won't as iToms is sponsored by Apple, it have to be when reading the headlines and then the facts is that they "won" one out of four claims (still one to many judging the content in it, making every document who has a link in it debatable and its insanity!)

Here are the real facts and not the marketing retyped one : http://www.usitc.gov/secretary/fed_reg_notices/337/337_710_Notice12192011sgl.pdf - Judge for yourself!

 

[iam2thecrowe]

i am patenting pressing a button on a phone to enter a phone number, surely if apple can patent crap like that, so can I. And i'll let everyone but Apple use this tech that i invented and ban all their crappy phonies.