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Our patent system has been around and working fine for 200+ years. Our strong patent system is one of the pillars of our high technology society. And yes, even in the 1800's people like Thomas Edison bought up patents from non-practicing entities. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by b9bot This troll needs to be stopped now. You got your money, don't expect anymore. Companies that have no products should not be able to sue period. This should be illegal. If you don't have products then you don'…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui Naturally occurring pharmacologically active substances found in plants have been patented. The DEA has even patented cannabinoids as an antioxidant and neuro-protectant. Can you point us to a patent? I…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rob53 So two people can't have the same intellectual idea at different times and the only one who actually gets it patented even if they never license it or demonstrate the idea wins? Doesn't make sense. From what o…
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cropr wrote: » I think Keynote is a good product, Pages has its limits but is rather OK, but Numbers is absolutely useless in a business environment. Not being able to link a cell from Numbers file to a cell in other Numbers file, is an show sto…
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benjamin frost wrote: » Words that Slurpy needs to heed, if he wishes to get anywhere in his life. Blindly swearing in a rage in every post is fit for the mental asylum, but not for engaging in constructive discourse, something essential in the…
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solipsismy wrote: » You don't get it. Not having that one feature doesn't mean the app is useless to everybody. A company won't use Preview when Adobe CS is needed, nor will they use Pages or TextEdit when Word is needed, etc. Your making a ridicu…
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westcoaststar wrote: » Can't Apple just appeal the ruling in some other court? Yes, and they are likely to lose the appeal. I suspect the real purpose of the appeal is to argue that the damages are excessive, not that they don't infringe. They ma…
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pembroke wrote: » Interesting post. "As to whether the patent system should allow patenting software ... that's another issue" Yes, might mountain climbers one day be able to patent a route? No the USPTO would never allow a claim to a clim…
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suddenly newton wrote: » Apple = gangster? LOL. Let me guess: Google = saint. No, Google plays the gangster role too. The point is that big companies push around small patent holders.
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rob53 wrote: » Show me a product. Show me where his patented ideas were actually used. How generalized are his patents? Apple should go after the USPTO directly and challenge them to justify giving this guy patents just for ideas that he never tri…
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rayz wrote: » I think it's time these people started paying legal costs if they lose. The reason the UK doesn't have such a massive industry in lawsuits is because you'd better be damn sure you have a strong case before going to court. This com…
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rayz wrote: » I think it's time these people started paying legal costs if they lose. The reason the UK doesn't have such a massive industry in lawsuits is because you'd better be damn sure you have a strong case before going to court. This com…
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slurpy wrote: » "Smartflash makes no products, has no employees, creates no jobs, has no U.S. presence, and is exploiting our patent system to seek royalties for technology Apple invented," Pretty much sums it up. Can't fucking understand how t…
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solipsismy wrote: » :???: I can see how a document that requires paragraph numbering wouldn't be able to use Pages, but all your other leaps sound nutty. You even say that "iWork is still useless," not just Pages, but also Numbers and Keynote, be…
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applezilla wrote: » Google Docs? What's Google Docs? Kids all over America will be growing up with iWork apps as oldsters cling on to Google Docs and Microsoft Office until the grave. Business is what drives adoption of Word processing. If bus…
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iWork is still useless, because Pages doesn't do paragraph numbering (and no, number lists don't cut it). Lawyers have to have paragraph numbering. If lawyers can't use Pages, then businesses can't use Pages. If businesses can't use Pages, then anyo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by krreagan Apple is designing a fully autonomous vehicle. Similar to Google's original design with no steering wheel but by the time Apple's hits the road (2020ish) the mandate for human intervention capability will no…
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I bought iCloud storage before I realized that iCloud doesn't let you share folders with other people like DropBox does. (i.e., you can't set up a shared folder and let people with other accounts add to or delete from the shared folder). In other w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismY I'm not sure why you think Apple has iCloud right. Most of us bitching in this article are probably like me and have 10's of thousands of dollars worth of Apple hardware and recognize good products wh…