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    Apple's Bloodiest Patent and Copyright Clashes
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    01/29/09

    In reply to Apple's Bloodiest Patent and Copyright Clashes
    Do they make Steve turn off/hand in his RDF before they allow him in the court room?
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    Image of snowy_coke snowy_coke
    01/29/09

    In reply to Apple's Bloodiest Patent and Copyright Clashes
    I just hope the pre comes with multi touch. Mother nature should just sue them for taking after a fruit and making it their own forbidden fruit.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    01/29/09

    @snowy_coke: "pre comes"


    *tee hee hee*

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    Image of Monty Monty
    01/29/09

    In reply to Apple's Bloodiest Patent and Copyright Clashes
    Technically, I think Creative won the battle against Apple. They did get paid - they just didn't get everything they wanted.
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    Image of John Mahoney John Mahoney
    01/29/09

    @Monty: Apple only gave them cash. It was an equivalent amount to the loose change you would pull out of your pocket to give to a hobo if you were feeling charitable.


    Apple didn't have to change the iPod software one bit, and lost absolutely no competitive advantage. Total win for Apple.

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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    01/29/09

    In reply to Apple's Bloodiest Patent and Copyright Clashes
    I just wanted to say: this article was awesome. A step above the typical blog post. Kudos to John Mahoney.
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    Image of Anonymoose Anonymoose
    01/29/09

    @Serolf Divad: agreed. that's why that one type "competior" is bothering me. or maybe it's because i have genital warts. either way, something is bothering me.
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    Image of Wilson Rothman Wilson Rothman
    01/29/09

    @Anonymoose: Good to know. Or maybe not. I can at least fix the "type" (you meant "typo," right?) but I can't fix the warts.
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    Image of Krutch Krutch
    01/29/09

    In reply to Apple's Bloodiest Patent and Copyright Clashes
    Can someone explain what the difference is between Microsoft surface multitouch and the iphone multi-touch which was told to be the first multi-touch device (BULLSHIT)?
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    Image of vladdybear vladdybear
    01/29/09

    @Krutch:

    they use different technology to detect the fingers on the screen, and only one of them is a phone
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    01/29/09

    @vladdybear: I thought the patent was on the gestures, not the medium it works on.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/29/09

    In reply to Apple's Bloodiest Patent and Copyright Clashes
    Apple v Apple was a bit of a shocker.


    Apple, Inc.'s defense was that it wasn't producing music. It asserted this defense at the same time that Apple, Inc. was selling iTunes Exclusives and iTunes Sessions recordings - recordings made exclusively for iTunes.


    Of course, Sir Paul did manage to smack down Heather Mills in his divorce with her. That's gotta count for something.

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    Image of bandit bandit
    01/29/09

    In reply to Apple's Bloodiest Patent and Copyright Clashes
    Copyright materials do not need to be "registered." Your work is copyrighted as soon as you create it. Bozos.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/29/09

    @bandit: Even if you're right - which you're not - you should copyright your work. The costs are nominal, especially when compared to the cost of litigation.


    A stitch in time saves nine.

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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    01/29/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I'm no copyright expert, but here is what google told me.


    [topics.law.cornell.edu]

    "Under current law, works are covered whether or not a copyright notice is attached and whether or not the work is registered."

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    01/29/09

    @Rabid Penguin: If you wrote something and someone copied off of you then you try to sue that person but he has 10 lawyers and you're only defending yourself, do you really think you could win with this stick in hand?
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    01/29/09

    Why does everything have to be about winners and losers to you?


    In that type of situation you would probably walk away with your stick still in hand.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/29/09

    In reply to Apple's Bloodiest Patent and Copyright Clashes
    You know who wins in copyright fights? Lawyers. Thank god for litigation.
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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    01/29/09

    @OMG! Ponies!:


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    Image of kuriakos kuriakos
    01/29/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: You've been served by the Law Offices of Dbag, Greed, and Bloat.
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    01/29/09

    @kuriakos: That's okay. My firm of Dewey Cheatham & Howe has interposed an Answer on my behalf.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/29/09

    @admoseremic: Classy.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    01/29/09

    In reply to Apple's Bloodiest Patent and Copyright Clashes
    So enlighten me again? Does the Pre have similar/identical gesturing to use the multitouch? What is the primary difference between the Pre's multitouch, and the multitouch in the Dell tablet that touts the same capability? Is it just the fact that one's a phone and the other's a laptop?


    I'm all for companies protecting their IP, but sometimes it seems as though it would do a great deal of ill for the industry if certain things were hoarded away. Besides, multitouch itself is not an Apple invention. I hope other businesses get to use and exploit this feature, because handsets are coming in with fewer and fewer buttons, so really do need the more elaborate virtual controls. /fin

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    Image of loriensleafs loriensleafs
    01/29/09

    In reply to Apple's Bloodiest Patent and Copyright Clashes
    didn't they just loose that battle over the scratched iPods?
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    Image of A Snake a Snake... OH it's a Snake! A Snake a Snake... OH it's a Snake!
    01/29/09

    @loriensleafs: how do you loose a battle
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/29/09

    @Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake! ohhhhhhhh it's snake!: Loose, as in let slip the dogs of war!
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    01/29/09

    In reply to Apple's Bloodiest Patent and Copyright Clashes
    "Apple Computer Inc. v. Microsoft, Xerox and Intel - 1983-1997"


    So they were fighting over this for 14 years? Wow.

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