Apple to Pay Elan $5 Million in Multitouch Patent Settlement

[JMcEntegart]

Taiwanese company Elan has announced that Apple will pay the company $5 million as part of a patent infringement suit.

Apple to Pay Elan $5 Million in Multitouch Patent Settlement : Read more

 

[aracheb]

5 million only?
they should pay 100 times that for damaged done to the company.

 

[sunflier]

Karma baby!!

 

[mrmaia]

"and Apple counter-sued in response to those allegations."

Apple is a troll even when they're the ones being sued.

 

[EDVINASM]

Apple gets sued, agrees to settle and shares the patent. Others get sued by Apple, offers Apple settlement, gets a finger and are relieved of any rights. Obviously it is more complicated than that, but in nutshell Apple is such a b4$t4rd. Even if Apple was cheaper than competitors I would not buy it. Cheap is cheap.

 

[nebun]

how nice...i am sure that Apple will have to pay some royalties to Elan

 

[joebob2000]

This stinks of bullying... "Say Elan, how sad would it be if we bought your whole company up, crushed it into a thousand pieces, then paid Justin Timberlake to breakdance on it?"

"Oh, how about a 5 million dollar token settlement and we will forget all about that silly patent of ours?"

 

[joebob2000]

Oh and how funny is it that there are no quotes from Elan executives proclaiming "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Elan's $10 million in the bank, to right this wrong, I'm going to destroy Apple, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

Too soon? nope

 

[freggo]

As usual, the big boys get away with murder while you and I would get slapped silly.

 

[velocityg4]

And the two companies probably spent $40 million in legal fees.

 

[internetlad]

Yeah, I bet that 5M will really leave Apple hurting in the long run.

Think they can come back from a death blow like this?

Hell, Tim Cook himself probably pulled out his wallet after the verdict was announced and started throwing wads of money on the table.

"FIVE MI- HA HA OH WOW" -Tim Cook

 

[twu]

Apple invent, Steve Jobs invent...
My a*s, stealing is, with $$$ to make it legal.
Apple s*cks.

 

[mjello]

Good to be lawyer in this world. Wrong education I took damn... Ooo wait id have to kill myself if I had to use my life on stupidity like patent suits over square icons...