Apple's Siri voice recognition technology target of patent lawsuit

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• Reply 1 of 21

  sandse7en Posts: 1member

  January 21, 2016 6:14AM

  Gold diggers activated.
• Reply 2 of 21

  applesauce007 Posts: 1,698member

  January 21, 2016 6:29AM

  The patents will be invalidated.
• Reply 3 of 21

  tundraboy Posts: 1,885member

  January 21, 2016 6:42AM

  Here's another patent which is a mere translation of a series of manual steps into a computer automated procedure.  The real innovation that makes this possible is the underlying voice recognition and comprehension technology, of which the patent is just a specific implementation.

  
• Reply 4 of 21

  tenly Posts: 710member

  January 21, 2016 6:57AM

  Hurry up and assign a judge so they can file for a sales injunction!!!  Apple should not be able to continue selling their products so long as they contain these innovative features stolen from another company!
  
  /s /s /s
• Reply 5 of 21

  tenly Posts: 710member

  January 21, 2016 7:00AM

  If anyone was still unclear as to what constitutes a patent troll and what doesn't - Dot23 is the epitome of a troll.  Non-practicing.  Trying to assert parents which contain obvious techniques that never should have been awarded in the first place.  This suit will have a judge for all of about 30 seconds before it gets thrown out.
  
  

  
• Reply 6 of 21

  horvatic Posts: 144member

  January 21, 2016 7:23AM

  Trolls are at it again. If a company doesn't make products it shouldn't be allowed to even apply for a law suit period.

  
• Reply 7 of 21

  freerange Posts: 1,597member

  January 21, 2016 7:33AM

  Please please please dismantle this court and shut it down! Either that or give Texas back to its rightful owner, Mexico!

  
• Reply 8 of 21

  dysamoria Posts: 3,430member

  January 21, 2016 10:39AM

  Stop calling them "non-practicing entities". It just helps to normalize a very bad part of the disease of out-of-control capitalism. Capitalism doesn't have to be unethical and antisocial. Stop justifying it being as such. These companies are trolls. They are harming the very system they're exploiting.

  
• Reply 9 of 21

  Rayz2016 Posts: 6,957member

  January 21, 2016 11:03AM

  The price of success, unfortunately.
  
    
  

  
• Reply 10 of 21

  dewme Posts: 5,356member

  January 21, 2016 11:51AM

  dysamoria said:

  Stop calling them "non-practicing entities". It just helps to normalize a very bad part of the disease of out-of-control capitalism. Capitalism doesn't have to be unethical and antisocial. Stop justifying it being as such. These companies are trolls. They are harming the very system they're exploiting.

  "a non-practicing entity located in Texas" == "patent troll"
  
  I agree but I'd called it government sanctioned gambling and not capitalism. We shouldn't try to be politically correct to: 1) those who are trying to game the system and 2) the regional bodies, i.e., east Texas, who create the environment and profit centers for this activity to take place. Let's call it like it is. East Texas is the Las Vegas of Intellectual Property games of chance. Instead of gaming tokens or coins that you stuff into a machine, go ahead and fill your pockets with bargain bin patent certificates purchased at clearance sales and nearly defunct companies and try your luck in the IP Casinos / Fast Track Courts in the fine state of Texas. Yee ha. They may as well put up all the flashy themed advertising and have a few past-their-prime entertainers in residence at the local hotels so jurors and lawyers can take in a show when they're not in the casino, uh I meant courtroom. I see package deals and weekend getaways where out of state visitors and tech pundits can witness the proceedings firsthand before they take in an all-you-can-eat buffet and a magic show. Disguising this clown circus buffoonery as a legitimate court of law is a joke. They may as well wrap it all up in the Vegas style glitz and glamour to make it at least a little bit entertaining and expose it for what it really is - a game of chance and performance stage for clowns, uh I meant lawyers.
  
  
  
  
  

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• Reply 11 of 21

  jm6032 Posts: 147member

  January 21, 2016 2:00PM

  freerange said:

  Please please please dismantle this court and shut it down! Either that or give Texas back to its rightful owner, Mexico!

  
  Careful, you will stir up a hornets' nest with that one. Texas was an independent republic when it joined the United States. So, give it back to itself. Many people in Texas would rejoice at that.
• Reply 12 of 21

  justme12 Posts: 13member

  January 21, 2016 4:36PM

  So Apple can at least blame this company for Siri only accurately getting things right about 25% of the time? Both companies should be embarrassed with Siri functionality 
• Reply 13 of 21

  franklinjackcon Posts: 612member

  January 21, 2016 4:39PM

  This is as bad as claiming a rectangle with rounded corners can be protected by IP law. Writing to the patent office the things you'd like your device to do is not the same as demonstrating how it will be done. I'm writing a vague patent for a pill that you take and it cures cancer by killing cancer cells. Once Big Pharma works out how to make that, I'll be rolling in it.

  
• Reply 14 of 21

  dasanman69 Posts: 13,002member

  January 21, 2016 5:00PM

  jm6032 said:

  freerange said:

  Please please please dismantle this court and shut it down! Either that or give Texas back to its rightful owner, Mexico!

  
  Careful, you will stir up a hornets' nest with that one. Texas was an independent republic when it joined the United States. So, give it back to itself. Many people in Texas would rejoice at that.

  For all of 9 years, before then it belonged to Mexico with many Spanish settlements in the area. 
• Reply 15 of 21

  christophb Posts: 1,482member

  January 21, 2016 5:40PM

  freerange said:

  Please please please dismantle this court and shut it down! Either that or give Texas back to its rightful owner, Mexico!

  Don't be fatuous.  It's a Federal Court so bone up on Article III, Section 1.
  
  
  As to your other point, perhaps California should go back too? And perhaps Florida?  How about Louisiana up to Oregon?

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• Reply 16 of 21

  magman1979 Posts: 1,292member

  January 21, 2016 8:11PM

  justme12 said:

  So Apple can at least blame this company for Siri only accurately getting things right about 25% of the time? Both companies should be embarrassed with Siri functionality 

  Is it just me, or has there been a marked increase in the amount of newly-created accounts on the forums being specifically created to just bash Apple with meaningless and ignorant hyperbole???
  
  The mods need to step it up and start banning these trolls before things get out of hand!

  edited January 2016
• Reply 17 of 21

  anome Posts: 1,533member

  January 21, 2016 8:24PM

  dasanman69 said:

  jm6032 said:

  
  Careful, you will stir up a hornets' nest with that one. Texas was an independent republic when it joined the United States. So, give it back to itself. Many people in Texas would rejoice at that.

  For all of 9 years, before then it belonged to Mexico with many Spanish settlements in the area. 

  And when you consider that the right to own slaves was one of the reasons they fought to leave Mexico, maybe it would be best they weren't left on their own.

  christophb said:

  Don't be fatuous.  It's a Federal Court so bone up on Article III, Section 1.
  
  
  As to your other point, perhaps California should go back too? And perhaps Florida?  How about Louisiana up to Oregon?

  Give Louisiana back to the French. They need somewhere to continue their nuclear tests now the South Pacific is out of bounds.
  
  And give Florida to Cuba. That ought to upset a few people.
  
  California's tricky. Maybe everything South of Santa Barbara goes to Mexico, and the North goes to Oregon. It's all hipsters, tech startups, and coffee shops anyway.
• Reply 18 of 21

  tenly Posts: 710member

  January 22, 2016 2:49AM

  Didn't voice dialing exist as a feature long before it was integrated into Siri?
• Reply 19 of 21

  conceptvbs Posts: 24member

  January 26, 2016 8:13AM

  Apple tasting its own medicine.
• Reply 20 of 21

  conceptvbs Posts: 24member

  January 26, 2016 8:15AM

  tenly said:

  If anyone was still unclear as to what constitutes a patent troll and what doesn't - Dot23 is the epitome of a troll.  Non-practicing.  Trying to assert parents which contain obvious techniques that never should have been awarded in the first place.  This suit will have a judge for all of about 30 seconds before it gets thrown out.
  
  

  It's only going to get worse if the Supreme Court upholds the patent judgement from Apple vs Samsung case. Its going to open up a floodgate of new patent trolls (likely targeting Apple). Its going to come back at Apple and bite them in the rear. Mark. My. Words.