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Victory For Apple In "Patent Trial of the Century," To the Tune of $1 Billion
pdabbadabba writes "The jury is in in the epic patent dispute between Apple and Samsung and Apple appears to be coming out on top. The court is still going through the 700+ items on the verdict form, but things seem to be going Apple's way so far. In the case of Apple's various UI patents, the jury is consistently ruling that Samsung not only violated Apple's patent, but did so willfully." Reader bob zee also points to the AP's story, as carried by Breitbart.com, and Charliemopps adds Reuters' take. Reader Samalie contributes a link to a live blog of the (at this writing) ongoing recitation of the verdict. Whether you like it or not, even this verdict won't be the last word.
Apple deserved this win. Good for Apple, glad one of these Asian copycat companies is finally held accountable.
Regardless of your opinion of the patents themselves, Samsung did infringe on them and this decision is well deserved for those assclowns
Honestly. I've never felt this way about a tech legal suit. Apple is a fraud and I hope they burn in hell. If this holds up you can kiss free speech and innovation goodbye, because now shapes are patented.
What makes me sad instead of angry is how fucking ignorant the jury seems to me. It's a mockery of what the legal system is supposed to be.
This is a great day for all of us.
Or take the hint and start innovating instead of just copying Apple.
unless the jurors found the evidence against Scamscum was so obvious, they didn't need to deliberate any more. Samsung got what it deserved. Seeing the fandroids kicking-and-screaming right now is such a fun thing to witness!!!
Mad your side lost?
Well you could argue that Apple is so trendy that most idiots tend to worship the rotten apple so much that it might just lead them to be all biased.
So basically you can look forward to an Apple only world from now on because they have the most money and people are too stupid to realize Apple did not invent the world.
Fuck Apple.
Plenty of phones with rounded corners were found to BE infringing because of rounded corners.
Can the fanboism.
They didn't actually invent any of that. Every singe one of those was 'copied' from those who invented them.
The losers is everybody who depends on innovation. Which is to say everybody, including Apple, though they they will see some short term financial benefits.
That's facile. The opposite decision was reached in the Apple v Microsoft lawsuit back in the day and instead of a golden age of innovation we got a computing dark age. Microsoft didn't really understand the GUI (according to some they still don't) and it took them years after their copy job to come up with anything halfway decent. Likewise Samsung doesn't know the first thing about building a mobile computing platform, just enough to skin someone else's OS and copy some hardware once they see what works. Innovation is what was protected here today. If you want to argue the right to copy that's fine, but innovation it is not.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
The entire point of the patent system is to grant an exclusive monopoly on an invention for a limited time to the inventor in exchange for divulging how it was done. Too bad if others can't compete due to this. If they can't compete because of this, that is further proof of the novelty of the invention and thus the inventing entity deserves the spoils all the more.
a daughter that he treated really poorly, surprisingly
For a half Syrian it's not.
Upward mobility is a slippery slope - the higher you climb the more you show your ass.