Apple Sues HTC Over 'Stolen Patented Inventions'

[Unolocogringo]

Apple applied for a patent for using two fingers to manipulatr a touch screen. If you can use two fingers to use the other phones then it infringes on their patent.
If you use two fingers typing on your phone you broke Apples patent.

The patent office needs some serious overhauling. With stupid patents like this being approved. No one can innovate.

 

[Luscious]

[citation][nom]Rick_Criswell[/nom]Apple applied for a patent for using two fingers to manipulatr a touch screen. If you can use two fingers to use the other phones then it infringes on their patent. If you use two fingers typing on your phone you broke Apples patent. The patent office needs some serious overhauling. With stupid patents like this being approved. No one can innovate.[/citation]
I'll show Apple MY two fingers!!!!

 

[dheadley]

The writing is one the wall for computing as we know it today. The future is going to move farther and farther away from the old computing model and more towards the consumer electronics way of doing things. Controlled content and applications like the game consoles and Apples app store approach. Handheld web/media devices are going to replace desktops and laptops for the majority of consumers over the coarse of this decade.

Whoever controls the most hardware/software in that new mobile web/media arena is going to win the jackpot and you can bet that every single technology company is either already diving into the pool head first or they are scrambling to find a set of swim trunks and rubber cap to get into the race.

Expect all these companies to be throwing patents around they can to try to get the best starting position. I would also expect to see Apple doing the most in this regard, but also Microsoft may finally play their patent claims against Linux when they come off the starting blocks with their new phones as a way to slow Android down.

Expect to see a lot more patent fights as the year progresses and more new smartphone designs come out.


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[dsl1]

[citation][nom]Gin Fushicho[/nom]So no one is allowed to make a touch screen phone that connects to the internet through 3g or Wi-fi other Apple huh?I hardly see that as fair , the internet has no patents.Processors have no patents.ATi isn't suing Nvidia for making video cards.Nobody is suing Matrox for making video cards.Tilera isn't being sued for having made a 100 core processor.Apple wants the whole damned world.[/citation]

There are hundreds of patent infringement lawsuits regarding these things. These issues do have plenty of ground and are widely common throughout the industry. Of course, in this case it is Apple filing the suit so the bashers on Toms have to jump into the fray. However, in light of your comments about that fact that no one is filing suits for just selling a product (ATi and NVidia). AMD filed a lawsuit (and won) against Intel for monopoly abuse. IE, Intel was taking advantage of corning the market to an extent where it was deemed illegal.

 

[djackson_dba]

[citation][nom]randomizer[/nom]Patents are a stain on society. We could have flying cars by now, but patents won't allow us to progress that fast.[/citation]
So, the engineers to design and build these flying cars... who would pay them? Patents are an incentive to find better creative ways of doing things. Guys with families are not going to build your flying cars if they can't feed their families.

 

[djackson_dba]

[citation][nom]randomizer[/nom]Who is innovating now? Technological progress is so slow it's become a bore to watch.[/citation]
LOL! Take a look at processor, memory, storage technology, battery life, internet speeds in private houses... there is plenty of innovation going around. We live in a world were you can buy a 1.5TB hard drive for under $80. Think back to 5 years ago. Things have progressed nicely in my opinion.

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]djackson_dba[/nom]Patents are an incentive to find better creative ways of doing things.[/citation]
Patents don't work then, or their use has changed to "incentive to find creative ways of suing other companies".

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]djackson_dba[/nom]LOL! Take a look at processor, memory, storage technology, battery life, internet speeds in private houses... there is plenty of innovation going around. We live in a world were you can buy a 1.5TB hard drive for under $80. Think back to 5 years ago. Things have progressed nicely in my opinion.[/citation]
And yet we are still stuck using power-hungry MOSFETs, inefficient x86, batteries that last days at the most, and Internet speeds that are great if you happen to live in one of a few select countries in the world (which will always be the case), and HDDs that still fill to capacity quite easily (depending on your uses).

 

[nukemaster]

[citation][nom]tacoslave[/nom]htc should challenge jobs to a drinking contest. oh yeah by the http://www.tuaw.com/2006/08/23/app [...] ettlement/ i pod "easy to use" interface isn't original and its actually worse than creatives i fucking love my zen.[/citation]
+9999

 

[davewbrown]

One of the many reasons why I will never buy Apple anything...

 

[nebun]

good on apple. R&D cost a lot of money.

 

[4ILY45]

Their suing every single touchscreen phone manufacturer their can get their hands on..

GREAT WORK Apple! /sarcasm/

 

[tacoslave]

[citation][nom]nukemaster[/nom]+9999[/citation]

Its over 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[acadia11]

Apple, knows it's bigger than HTC, so, since they are the only ones with getting the kind of praise that Iphones get, Apple figures it will get htme to waste money fighting the law suits. I hate thepolitcs of business, I thought SCO died long ago?

 

[cj_online]

[citation][nom]randomizer[/nom]Patents are a stain on society. We could have flying cars by now, but patents won't allow us to progress that fast.[/citation]

That is so true....

 

[anamaniac]

Companies didn't steal the iPhone, they made better phones.
[citation][nom]mrmoo500[/nom]Apple is becoming the corporate giant they hated back when they started up.[/citation]
Just sad. =(

As much as I like Macintosh products, they just don't offer what I want. Give me an all magnesium 15 inch 1920x1200 AMOLED black Macbook with a i5, 3G, Gen3 256GB x18-m and 5770m, and I'd consider giving you my money, lots of it.

 

[Lewis57]

Simply put, I hate steve jobs and apple, go away please.

 

[djackson_dba]

[citation][nom]randomizer[/nom]Patents don't work then, or their use has changed to "incentive to find creative ways of suing other companies".[/citation]
You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but I'm betting if it were your intellectual property you would not give it away for free. I don't know you, but I'm betting you are not that different than me in this regard. You have to make a living and giving your work away for nothing is not going to put food on the table.

 

[djackson_dba]

[citation][nom]randomizer[/nom]And yet we are still stuck using power-hungry MOSFETs, inefficient x86, batteries that last days at the most, and Internet speeds that are great if you happen to live in one of a few select countries in the world (which will always be the case), and HDDs that still fill to capacity quite easily (depending on your uses).[/citation]
Progress is being made. My cell phone now lasts for two straight days without a charge while running apps and remaining connected to the internet. The internet speed on my cell phone is as good or better than what I was getting at my house 5 years ago. My notebook ran for 6 straight hours on batteries recently. That is 3 hours better than my last one. My dekstop has reached a point where I can run multiple virtuals which is allowing me a lot more flexibility in my development work. While it would be nice if all the world were equal, it has not been up to this point in history and I have my doubts that it will ever be. The failings of human nature are just that. Patents didn't cause inequality. I am thankful that I live in "one of the few select countries in the world". Maybe the other non-select countries should re-prioritize.

 

[swamprat]

[citation][nom]djackson_dba[/nom]"So, the engineers to design and build these flying cars... who would pay them?" Patents are an incentive to find better creative ways of doing things. Guys with families are not going to build your flying cars if they can't feed their families.[/citation]

I agree - patents are, in principle, a good thing. It's just bad if they get used for trolling like they seem to in the US. For example, it should be thoroughly impossible for me to patent the general idea of a flying car now without lots of details - but I suspect someone could be granted that in the US despite prior art. So when the hard working inventors actually get to make the thing work they could be sued by some muppet in Delaware that hadn't made any contribution to the ideas/designs required.

If there are actual proper inventions being used by HTC, Apple should get its due. If Apple is just being a troll, then it should get its due too I suppose.