Posts by EsquireMac

Quote: Originally Posted by ash471 The answer isn't to change the patent law. If small inventors can't win in litigation and they can't sell their patents to brokers, you will have effectively destroyed the ability of small inventors to...

Quote: Originally Posted by ash471 What you don't understand is that there is a standard for patentability and the Courts can't change the law. You evidently missed my opening sentence: "Their only real chance is to effectuate...

Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider McCoy will put into motion the coalition's efforts to protect independent software developers with a "three-pronged attack:" legal action, lobbying for legislative reform and mobilizing...

If the HTML5 webapp doesn't have access to the camera, camera roll, GPS location data, push notifications (at all, let alone in a secure way), this initiative would seem to be a non-starter. It might be good for browsing facebook, but...

Can we all agree to stop saying that the Mac App Store is a feature of OS X Lion? I don't get why people keep saying that.

Sorry guys, this is more or less a boilerplate defense in a case like this. "Puffing" is a legitimate defense - if the elements are met. I'm not saying they are met or not. Apple is simply pleading this defense, along with a...

This is actually no big deal. This ADR is non-binding. In Maryland (where I practice, but not where this lawsuit is), most of the time it is worthless, and it is almost always avoided by both parties (in my circles, anyway). I don't...

Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Apple has kept to its traditional silence regarding lawsuits, but in this circumstance won't have that option for much longer; the California-based electronics designer is legally required to...

Posted about this slightly more in depth this morning here: http://www.esquiremac.com/2008/07/op...nces-vs-apple/