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I am going to find out if I can get a patent on walking, or breathing. That way nobody else can survive!

Great thinking Apple!

Our ridiculous, unfair and abysmal patent laws must be overhauled ASAP as evil companies such as Apple are taking huge advantages and cheating all of us with their ridiculous patents with the blessing of the moronic US Patent Office.

What is next apple patenting Breathing, Walking, running? Pretty soon we will have to pay royalty's to apple to be alive.

So if I say I once caught a fish "this" (spreads arms out wide) big will I be impinging on one of Apple's pantents? There's a button with a "+" on it on my TV remote to increase the volume. If control methods can be patented who's making a fortune from that patent? It's ridiculous. This stinks of backdoor protectionism.

I believe scrolling patent deals with scrolling to the end of a list or page, letting it scroll past the end, and when you let go, it pulls back.

Crapple, a company that does not innovate, only litigates. I will never be an iSheep.

Patent troll Apple wins injunction from our corrupt legal system. Good for Apple. Not only will I never buy an Apple product again, I will work to actively disparage them at every opportunity. [censored] You, Apple, and [censored] You, Dishonorable Lucy H. Koh, for nursing this injustice through the legal system.

JohnUSA, on 27 June 2012 - 05:19 AM, said:

So after reading the article and knowing full well Apple deserves these patents to protect their IP because they rightfully brought this to market first by a LONG shot. You have some nerve to sit there and posit how Apple is an evil company for seeking patents to things they create while other companies rip them off in an attempt to gain market share and are full well prepared to litigate TILL they can come up with their own proprietary technology? You do understand how this works right? I mean cause when I read your post I think what a clueless idiot this guy is.

RandyBobandy, on 27 June 2012 - 05:25 AM, said:

A company that doesnt innovate? Wow, I think I could count the number of brain cells you have. You must be one brainwashed Android(former Crackberry) fanboy. I think I have given your post way more attention then it deserves. Goodbye!

JosephScott, on 27 June 2012 - 05:20 AM, said:

Hyperbole

TimJenni, on 27 June 2012 - 05:19 AM, said:

Hyperbole

The judge is stupid. She says, the G-Tab is indistinguishable from the iPad?



The aspect ratio of the G-Tab, makes the device BIGGER. The default usage of the device is in landscape, not portrait. The G-Tab has NO PHYSICAL BUTTONS and the Samsung logo doesn't look like a fruit.

Question...If a 4 year old can tell the difference, why can't an adult?

More purposeful ignorance? I thought the only people who get paid to be stupid were comedians.

Oh and to answer you Bob from a previous thread? If a person was diagnised as being stupid or crazy, at least that person would have a legit excuse, because they don't know any better. But when you CHOOSE to be such, you are actually worse off.

This Judge is stupid an ignrant. If she is to stupid to be able to tell the difference, then she shouldn't be a Judge. She is obviously be paid under the table.

Here is what is so funny...she is of Asian decent. Asian's when it comes to technology are the smartest peopel on the planet. They are the ones who make the components that goes into ALL electronic devices in the world. Yet she is so stupid that she can't tell an iPad from a G-Tab?

A blind person could easily tell the difference. All u have to do is stack them up and you see they are very different.

Maybe Lego should sue MegaBlocks. Not only so there blocks look like legos, they also work together.

Hey Apple, Asus' latest line of laptops look just like the Air, I don't see you suing them?

Judges are supposed to be unbiased and honest. Yet they are all crocked, paid off and dishonest. Why not just be a politician, it pays more.

Dumb judge. Another funny thought, she just happens to be Korean. She is actually siding against a company from her own native roots? Girl you better not ever go an visit and Samsung fines out you're there. You likely won't ever make it back here.

SomeJerseyGuy, on 27 June 2012 - 05:58 AM, said:

First Apple wasn't the first to market with any of the listed new patents by a LONG shot. Scrolling was done in the Windows tablets of the early 2000s, my plam device of the late 90s had it and in the 80s I remember seeing an IBM desttop with a touch screen having scolling. Pinching to show a size shrink is a common hand gesture dating back to, well probably the begining of human existance and as the patent office should know they can not give patents for devices that mimic common movements.

Apple has been using it's legal department to prevent having to compete with anybody. Apple is the company that has sued nearly everybody for "look and feel" which they have now lost twice.

Can't blame Apple for enforcing its patent.
The fault lies with the US Patent Office. They are issuing patents for ideas not inventions. Copyright the source code to perform the action yes, patent the specific physical method to implement the touch screen yes. Patent the idea of a touch screen? No. Patent the idea of a gesture? NO, it obvious and it’s been done.
The CAD system BRAVO was converting hand-drawn symbols (on a touchpad) into commands back in 1993. Same for a left-to-right diagonal movement (either with mouse or touchpad) to zoom in. EVERY CAD system uses this. Oh and a right-to-left diagonal movement un-zooms.
In 1994 Apple lost a look-and-feel suit against MS the courts ruled that “Apple cannot get patent-like protection for the idea of a graphical user interface, or the idea of a desktop metaphor..” (Yes the specific use of the “trash can” artwork as a delete symbol was protected)
So what’s happened? Best guess is millions of patent applications and a lack of technically educated patent office review clerks. (Hey, here’s a thought lots of unemployed engineers/physics types doing nothing)
The patent office needs to grow a pair and revoke ALL these “idea” patents.
Passing responsibility to the courts to figure out what is patentable just promotes “patent trolls”, clogs the court system, and stifles innovation.
If not;….I want to patent:
“A substance, element, compound, or combination thereof, used alone or in conjunction with an electric, magnetic, electromagnetic, and/or any classic, quantum, or temporal field, that when introduced into, onto, or about the human body, will kill, impair, stop, suspend, the growth, development, reproduction of, biological entities.”
HOLY Hell !!! I JUST INVENTED AND PATENTED THE CURE FOR CANCER!!!!
Now to start suing.

Can't blame Apple for enforcing its patent.
The fault lies with the US Patent Office. They are issuing patents for ideas not inventions. Copyright the source code to perform the action yes, patent the specific physical method to implement the touch screen yes. Patent the idea of a touch screen? No. Patent the idea of a gesture? NO, it obvious and it’s been done.
The CAD system BRAVO was converting hand-drawn symbols (on a touchpad) into commands back in 1993. Same for a left-to-right diagonal movement (either with mouse or touchpad) to zoom in. EVERY CAD system uses this. Oh and a right-to-left diagonal movement un-zooms.
In 1994 Apple lost a look-and-feel suit against MS the courts ruled that “Apple cannot get patent-like protection for the idea of a graphical user interface, or the idea of a desktop metaphor..” (Yes the specific use of the “trash can” artwork as a delete symbol was protected)
So what’s happened? Best guess is millions of patent applications and a lack of technically educated patent office review clerks. (Hey, here’s a thought lots of unemployed engineers/physics types doing nothing)
The patent office needs to grow a pair and revoke ALL these “idea” patents.
Passing responsibility to the courts to figure out what is patentable just promotes “patent trolls”, clogs the court system, and stifles innovation.
If not;….I want to patent:
“A substance, element, compound, or combination thereof, used alone or in conjunction with an electric, magnetic, electromagnetic, and/or any classic, quantum, or temporal field, that when introduced into, onto, or about the human body, will kill, impair, stop, suspend, the growth, development, reproduction of, biological entities.”
HOLY Hell !!! I JUST INVENTED AND PATENTED THE CURE FOR CANCER!!!!
Now to start suing.

QUADICON, on 27 June 2012 - 06:34 AM, said:

I have no idea to which thread or what question you are referring. However, I am certain that by this measure you have a legitimate excuse.

Casual racism redacted.

SomeJerseyGuy, on 27 June 2012 - 05:58 AM, said:

I am all for ANy compamny protecting their IP. However What Samsung did is not such.
The devices are cosmetically similar based on form factor. All laptops look alike. In fact some are so SIMILAR that from a distance they look NEARLY identical. Here is a couple to show you.


VS


Now I want you to be HONEST. One of these laptops IS the Mac Air. You can't see the OS on either and you can't see logo. Now I want you to stand 12 feet from the screen and tell me you can honestly distinguish them.

Th eonly points APple made that I aree with, is the G-Tab dos have similar design queus. The ques are how they use a similar color scheme. So what! So if I make a Fiery Red sports car, doe sthat mean Ferrari has a right to sue me, bec at 100mph both our cars look identical?

Oh and I guess SAMUNG in BIG WHITE LETTERS doesn't hep either. Oh and I guess when you turn on the device and see the native home screens, not the ones the lawyers changed, don't look different either. But the lawsuit is about physical elements.

Looks at the devices closely. One is BIGGER..ONE IS THINNER. ONE HAS NO "PHYSICAL" BUTTONS. The original iPAd has NO CAMERAS. The ORIGINAL G_TAB DOES.

Why aren't tired compabies all suing each other. I mean from a distance of 12+ can you tell the difference? They are ALL BLACK. Where they are different requires you to be close. They simply have a different tread pattern. However, they ALL look alike.

Hey how about this. Go and look at the 911 videos at WTC. Boeing makes both commerical and military planes. From a distance if you remove the paint, they all look virtually identical. But there are some very unique comectic details that set them totally apart that asures you the differences of a military carft vs a commercial one. Those differences are expressed in the 2 tablets.

I don't like any of the Ansdroid tablets much. The GLaxy S Note 10.1 is what I do like over the G-Tab 10. I have an iPad. There is no way I could get them confused. Even if I was blind.

The judge is being influence by her husband who is very close to Apple. That and money. There is only one conclusion you can draw when a Judge in broad daylight draws an inappropiate conclusion.

I don't care who wis or loses. It doesn't effect my buying decision. What it does show is Judges can and are wrong in many occasions. I would rather this be settled in a jury vs a Judge. As long as the jury isn't a bunch of fans from either side and they aren't people older than 65 who don't know a sewer from a hole in the ground.

This post has been edited by QUADICON: 27 June 2012 - 06:52 AM

JohnUSA, on 27 June 2012 - 05:19 AM, said:

O whaaaa...Apple is protecting their IP. I guess since I copied them I'm screwed now. Damn it! Great innovation invites copying. Just look at the copies coming out of China.