The International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled [full text below] in favor of Apple on a single point of their case against HTC in the US. The result is a ban of HTC smartphones which violate one particular patent.
While this is a significant victory in the sense it paves the way for similar judgements against other Android handset vendors, such as Samsung, in reality it is not as ... [ read the full article ]
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Yup...they banned one feature that is rarely used, and Google can reintroduce it using a free market app. Google is effectively in the clear from Apple. Now, google needs to go after Apple for all the things that Apple has copied from Android, and Samsung needs to go after them for doctoring the evidence that they submitted to the EU courts.
I don't understand why Google has been sitting on the defensive for so long...They have so many products and patents, and are always getting slammed at all sides by other companies. You'd think that they'd be able to get something on someone, hopefully Apple...
This is what is so dangerous about corporations buying up these huge blocks of patents, monopolization through litigation. Patents were meant to protect the inventor, not put in place so corporations can buy up thousands at a time and sue competitors for violating their newly purchased patents. I'm not saying that apple didn't invent this little feature that they're suing over, but that's what these patent wars will come down to. Someone needs to look into this, but its doubtful the corporate employees (our elected officials) will do anything about it.
Nothing good for the consumer can come out of this, it will only stifle innovation.
this sounds so much like a LINK LIST used by IBM systems for many years. I wonder if anyone has done a patent search on IBM (IBM patent info is on the internet).
www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/patent.html
carried one step further, couldnt it be said to be a passed parameter from one object to another? When the receiving object obtains the parameter it "process it"....duh maybe thought process can be patented....dont worry it wont be, too many people fail to use it anyway.
