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Judge Posner To Apple & Motorola: Go Home

Posted by timothy on from the ferris-bueller-with-a-robe dept.

reebmmm writes "Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner, voluntarily sitting as a district court judge, in the patent infringement dispute between Apple and Motorola has, tentatively, dismissed the case on the eve of trial. In this hilariously short order, Judge Posner states, 'I have tentatively decided that the case should be dismissed with prejudice because neither party can establish a right to relief.' Because it is 'with prejudice' the parties cannot refile their case. The parties are likely to appeal the order (when it's finalized)."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Common sense by hhawk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This seems like common sense and the first good news in a while about our seemingly broken patent system.

    It seems to me that if it can be done on a computer any computer, than it's not automatically "novel" if you can do it on a slightly different type of computer (desktop, laptop, mobile device, in car navigation system, etc.) Stop "pretending" to invent something new for Mobile devices when the same technology already exists for desktops, Etc.

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    1. Re:Common sense by SQLGuru · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Exactly. Software patents based on platform are stupid. The logic didn't change.....just the libraries called (and sometimes, not even those -- Windows Phone uses many of the same .Net calls as regular Windows).

  3. A Fine example... by stox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    of the job a judge is supposed to do.

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  4. Re:Personal connection, apropos of nothing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He was making a conclusion based on facts. It's like when someone says Goldwater would now be considered far too left to ever have a chance at the Republican nomination (especially given that back in '96, Goldwater said he and Bob Dole were now the liberal wing of the Republican party). It's partisan in that it's about a particular party, but that doesn't make it wrong or distasteful unless of course you're in blind allegiance to that party -- and even then, you could instead be proud that your party has changed as much as it has.

  5. A short order by PPH · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And yet, we get a link to scribd.com. Why? Did someone think we'd miss all the overhead of oddball formatting, disks spinning, Facebook popups and network LEDs flashing?

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