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The patent system in America needs to be reformed. When companies start spending tens of billions of dollars to buy other companies almost solely for the patent lawsuit ammunition, and then immediately sue your competitors for infringing on what is now “your” patents, you know something’s wrong. Companies are now sued for the vaguest patents that they allegedly copied.
Not a big Apple fan, but this article was a good read and I now have no love for a company like Samsung and the tactics it uses.
Don’t they have to show more than that the phone acts superficially like the Apple phone in order to make a patent infringement case? As in, they have to show that the Samsung was reverse engineered so as to mechanically perform the same functions?
Anyone who holds an advanced science degree and becomes a patent attorney can do very well for themselves. The nuances of these patent cases can be very tricky to wade through.
Anyway, corporate espionage is nasty stuff. And not all countries respect patents, either. It is very difficult to hold on to intellectual property... intellectual property theft is a big hindrance to innovation.
When I was in graduate school (for biochemistry), some lab published the description of a genetic construct that was identical to one patented by our principal investigator. They had never asked us for the construct—which we would have provided for free—they claimed it was all their own work. The principal investigator was *not* happy about this. Oh, it was a Korean lab.
I own a Samsung Galaxy. It is junk. Pure junk. I eagerly await the day when I can upgrade to a phone that works and I can heave this techno-trash against a wall.
Snip from article demonstrating supremacist bigotry exists even among the tender vegan fruits of the Apple Tribal cult.
“MacDailyNews Take:
I don’t know which is worse: Samsung’s slavish copying or that there are tens of millions of dullards and/or morally-crippled consumers who would buy such obvious knockoffs. What kind of person rewards thieves, especially such obvious ones? What kind of person hands over their money to make sure that crime pays? What’s wrong with you people, exactly?.....To those people I say: Get some morals, will you, or how about at least acquiring a modicum of taste?...
every one of us with the real thing knows that you’re carrying around a half-assed fake, you tasteless wonder.
– SteveJack, MacDailyNews, August 6, 2012
Sammie vs The Apple...one billionaire arguing with another.
Both should quit the whining and fight it out in the marketplace!
Samsung should bring out a model called THE WORM just to screw with the Apple dweebs. Apple could counter with THE INCHON and flank the bastards.
In my humble opinion.....THEY ALL BLOW.....but what the heck do I know.
The son of Sam law should apply here. You just should not profit from theft.
The original article:
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/06/apple-samsung-smartphone-patent-war.print
The frequent cases of Samsung corruption and illegal business practices are a matter of public record (if one does just a little digging).
Now - to my own experiences and those of the people around me:
I have friends and family who have been long-time iPhone users, who have jumped to Samsung - all but one did it not because they felt the Samsung was a superior product, but because they wanted the much larger screen of the much bigger “Galaxy Note” and more recently, the Mega.
The one who stated that they thought the Samsung was a better product was upset over some issues they had had with their last iPhone (which was as much their own doing as anything....).
But I will not argue that some prefer Android to iOS. My own experience with Android on a Tablet I bought a few months ago leaves me longing for it to run iOS 95% of the time.