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David/Goliath Story Brewing Between Apple and iControlPad Makers

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. SCOTUS we beseech thee by kawabago · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    End software patents!!!!!!

    1. Re:SCOTUS we beseech thee by Arimus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      This is mostly a hardware patent...

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    2. Re:SCOTUS we beseech thee by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      This isn't about software patents. Try the next thread.

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  2. Clown, you're broken beyond repair by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1591778&cid=31706790

    Utterly hilarious. Watch Clone/Clown in the url above have to resort to name calling and doing anything but answering up to his own blatant technical mistakes, lies, and other stupidity. Clone the trolling clown got his ass knocked the hell down (and out). LMAO - Unbelievable! Clone (or should we call you CLOWN)? Your trolling mouth wrote checks your dim brain can't cash, and that's that CLOWN.