VIA Technologies has sued Apple over patent infringement.
The company designs low-power microprocessors and controllers.
HTC recently made similar claims, unsurprisingly since HTC and Via have worked together multiple times.
The complaint, filed with the ITC and the U.S. district court, claims that all Apple devices using iOS and the A4/A5 processors are infringing on 'microprocessor ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by Notcow: I hope they win, even if they're flat out lying, hope they win.
Yeah, if apple wants to be a patent suing troll when everything they have is either licensed or stolen from others, they deserve all the backlash they get.
In reality, the best outcome for everone is if the court decides that discoveries are not inventions and therefore cannot be Patented. The thought that someone could use a blood sample without my permission and essentially my genes via a patent is a little scarry. The scarrier part is that it has already happened more than once, and the discoverer receives a large royalty stream while the people who the illegally used samples were taken from and who should have ownership to(it is part of their body, after all) get absolutely nothing. How's that for patent theft and troll.
