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The biggest victor in this may very well be Microsoft. I expect Windows Phone to get more attention from OEMs now. They clearly didn’t copy iPhone, plus they have licenses between apple and MS that prevent them from suing each other.
It’d be a shame if one idiot jury were to burden our tech sector with such bogus look-and-feel claims.
Square corners with rounded edges? The Apple expert even testified that all four corners being identical was critical, whereas that’s not the case with Samsung’s designs at all.
What would happen if the same standard were set in fashion or auto design or refrigerators or just about anything else?
How can Apple patent a rectangle?
Samsung and all others can easily argue that 16:9 format is THE ACCEPTED VIDEO STANDARD
I don’t believe in SLAPP suits or their associated “patents”. No more Apple products for me.
I purchased a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 because I wanted an Android OS. I want to write software for Android. I don’t like Apple’s product. All their victory does is damage my investment in a competitors product. I like Apple even less now.
They all follow what Apple does and then bitch about Apple. It wasn’t that many years ago Apple was all but considered dead and buried. Times have changed and will change again.
They all follow what Apple does and then bitch about Apple. It wasn’t that many years ago Apple was all but considered dead and buried. Times have changed and will change again.
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Does anyone have a transcript of the basis for thr decision? My understanding is that an idea cannot be copyrighted or patented. Only the implementation of the idea (otherwise we would all be driving Fords.)
If the hardware and the code for the implementation was created cleanly, with no attempt to actually steal Apple's code, I don't see how this happened.
Of course, if Samsung reverse engineered things and lifted the code directly, they deserve whatever they got.
In high tech, laziness or cleverness is a huge hand grenade waiting to go off. I assume Samsung also has good lawyers to prevent this sort of thing..