David/Goliath Story Brewing Between Apple and iControlPad Makers

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 2, 2010 @09:43AM from the iprior-iart dept.

relliker writes "Apple has just patented a design for an iPhone gaming add-on after admitting that the iPhone is somewhat hard to use as a games machine. The catch is that the design is not theirs. It was designed by a team of gaming aficionados, one member of which, Craig 'craigix' Rothwell of OpenPandora fame, is already twittering like mad about the shot just fired by Apple in their direction. The iControlPad team are in contact with their IP lawyer, since their design is already in production. Will Apple still try to steamroll right through them?"

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Re:Short answer: by Anonymous Coward · 2010-04-02 10:05 · Score: 3, Funny

BURMA SHAVE
Re:Apple by Culture20 · 2010-04-02 11:36 · Score: 3, Funny

This is typical Apple behavior.
No murders took place.
Re:The US' legal system follows the Golden Rule: by Paradise+Pete · 2010-04-02 16:01 · Score: 3, Funny

Exactly; like Bernard Madoff. Oh wait... If he made the rules, he probably would have exempted himself from a life sentence.
What actually happened was that when he turned himself into the police he thought then he would be the police and he could drop the charges. But obviously he misunderstood the meaning of the phrase.