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kudos:1 | lol quote:
given the obvious fact the device was not as "cool" and lacked Apple's "extreme simplicity."
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kudos:3 | Re: Apple loses more than wins in foreign country patent suits And they stirred the pot of the LTE patent pools
Their attempt to maintain shortterm market share is going to cost them a fortune in the long run.. maybe if they had some sense of direction/a better roadmap. | |
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| Re: Apple loses more than wins in foreign country patent suits said by tshirt:maybe if they had some sense of direction/a better roadmap.
I see what you did there. | |
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| | | said by Linklist:Apple keeps losing these suits overseas. The only place they keep winning is with Lucy Koh and her home court rulings in her Calif courtroom.
If the Brits really wanted to right the wrong Apple did to Samsung, the British courts would ban the sale of ALL Apple products in the UK until the California ruling mirrored theirs. | |
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| KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | overseas is not clouded by a judge and jury that live in the home state as one of the parties in the trial. And if the UK case had a jury of some kind(dunno if UK civil cases have an equal to a Jury) I doubt the foreman was a patent owner who also had previously been sued by a division of Samsung.
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kudos:7 | Prior Art? Refresh my memory... what predates the Newton?
I'm not saying anyone should get to patent the idea of a square. And there were plenty of SciFi references to "tablet" devices long before Jobs was out of diapers. (they were just props, 'tho) | |
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Tablets = square/rectangular shaped object used as method of sharing language/pictorial information with others. | |
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| | | | Re: Prior Art? said by tshirt:Moses?
Tablets = square/rectangular shaped object used method of sharing language/pictorial information with others.
^^2nd^^
Moses....LOL 
Thanks, that made my day. | |
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| |  ARGONAUTgot android?Premium
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kudos:1 | said by tshirt:Moses?
Tablets = square/rectangular shaped object used as method of sharing language/pictorial information with others.
Don't forget the round corners. | |
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| | | | That is classic!
Brilliant | |
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|  BonezXBasement DwellerPremium
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Canada | said by cramer:Refresh my memory... what predates the Newton?
I'm not saying anyone should get to patent the idea of a square. And there were plenty of SciFi references to "tablet" devices long before Jobs was out of diapers. (they were just props, 'tho)
Newton was a PDA, and in that case, the Sharp Wizard, and Atari Portfolio. | |
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| | | The Gridpad by two years though the Newton was a PDA and they didn't invent that either. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: Prior Art? Star Trek had something too. | |
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| | | | I think that's an IPad. It square and has rounded corners with a screen and buttons. I think you can touch the screen and it will respond; even with multi fingers... multitouch. | |
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kudos:2 | LOL and when they run photos of both side by side They can SAY whatever they want in print, but the photos of both devices will say everything...they "appear" identical and that is what lay consumers would get from such a disclosure. | |
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| Re: LOL and when they run photos of both side by side BOOKS look the same and even have similar art cover (just look at scifi books)... Does that mean that publishers should take each other to court?
Second of all the internal guts are definitely different over all even though some chips are shared because SAMSUNG made them. | |
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| | | Of course Apple had to photoshop the Galaxy Tab to make it similar in size and dimensions to the iPad. That speaks volumes. | |
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| KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | if I go into a best buy, the flat screen TVs all look pretty much the same. I do not see Sony suing Panasonic over the exterior of the TV sets.
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Look at the 4 door coupe concept. Mercedes CLS wasn't the first with this type of design, but once seen as a market and styling success, everyone rolled out their own version like the Audi A7, Porsche Panamera, and VW CC. Some would say those other models are even superior to the CLS. Where they would go afoul is if they copied the grill design, taillight design, wheel design...sure the profile is a bit different, but nearly all the details were identical, they'd be getting sued. But yeah, they all have steering wheels, they all have 4 tires, they all have a very generally similar profile but that is where the similarities end. Every detail is different in these automobiles giving customers choice, lots and lots of choice. | |
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| | LMAO lol glad to see someone stand up to greedy company like Apple. HAHAHA | |
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Camden, TN | So Apple invented thin tablets with rounded corners? circa 1987
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Colorado Springs, CO | Copycatting Samsung phones prior to the iPhone looked largely like Blackberries or Microsoft Smartphones, after the iPhone came out, they began looking like iPhones. | |
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| | | Re: Copycatting said by NOCMan:Samsung phones prior to the iPhone looked largely like Blackberries or Microsoft Smartphones, after the iPhone came out, they began looking like iPhones.
So boring! Apple also copycat! | |
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Gaithersburg, MD | Hmmm... It's called market evolution and Apple seems to be guilty of it in their history as well. Thank God nature doesn't behave like humans do:
"Zebras Sue Horses For Evolving 'Too Closely To Our Design'. Claims Immature Primate Females Now Buying Horse Dolls And Not So Many Zebra Dolls."
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|  SterlingIP Support Tier IIIPremium
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Pittsburgh, PA | Re: Where are all of the Apple backers? They must be manufacturing/inventing/Photoshopping/ evidence to support there argument or channeling Steve for there marching orders | |
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