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A Cheat Sheet To the Mobile-Patent Mess

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @12:36AM from the you'll-need-it dept.

harrymcc writes "This week's news that Apple is suing Samsung over the similarities of the latter's Galaxy phones and tablets to the iPhone and iPad inspired me to try to document all the court cases involving mobile patents (as well as some related relationships such as licensing agreements) in one infographic. I wonder what sort of technological wonders the companies involved could come up with if they took all the money they're giving to lawyers and spent it on R&D instead?"

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Re:DUPE Data Display by mangu · 2011-04-20 01:08 · Score: 3, Funny

A right-triangle chart would contain the same information
Yes, but the problem is that the right-triangle chart is patented.
funny by Charliemopps · 2011-04-20 01:22 · Score: 3, Interesting

Funny that M$FT and Appple are sueing everyone and Googles got the most smiley faces.
Design patent != Utility patent by AC-x · 2011-04-20 02:22 · Score: 2

Samsung are being sued by Apple over design patents rather than utility patents.Basically the Samsung devices look too much like Apple devices.
Design patents are very narrow scope and deal with just the look of the device as opposed to invention patents and software patents that cover how a device works.