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  • Coalition for App Fairness fears retaliation in bid to quash Apple subpoenas

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    Doh! discovery is a two-way process. If you have things to hide then don't file suit. Law School 101.

    This is not coming down on either side in this case but sometimes we all read about lawyers doing strange things that eventually backfire on them and their clients. Take the situation where the judge in Michigan hauled a bunch of lawyers up before her last week as an example.

    Many years ago, I was tech lead on a product and we were thinking about taking legal action against a competitor. We knew that we could win. A binary dump of their source code showed that it was our code right down to the patches. 
    The lawyers asked each and every one of us... 'do you have anything embarrassing in your emails?'. The MD's Secretary did. She was having an affair with the FD. We didn't file suit but after a few very strongly worded letters the other company stopped selling their widget. The Secretary later married the FD.

    FileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • Court rules 'Memoji' trademark holder created app just to sue Apple

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    chadbag said:
    This is funny.  

    Note to self :  keep personal car choices to myself if engaged in a lawsuit. 


    ETA: hopefully the lawyers didn't take this on contingency hoping it was a slam dunk.  Or they may be SOL too. 
    Better still... do a No 45. Write nothing down. Don't use Email.  No evidence trail means no charges which then means no case to answer.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple attorneys threaten UK market exit if court orders 'unacceptable' patent fees

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    radarthekat said:
    Consumers will pay the toll in raised prices.  Let the UK shoot themselves in the foot.  
    Do you realise that in the UK, the Judiciary is not elected as in the USA and is fiercely independent of the Government?

    IMHO, those patent trolls need to be closed down and I hope that is what eventually happens. They do not add anything worthwhile to society, only take.
    killroy

  • Facebook joins $1 trillion market cap club following dismissal of FTC suit

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    amar99 said:
    I sometimes wonder if Mark Suckerburg is just really dumb, instead of the calculating villain I believe him to be. Because his answers are always such a combination of meaningless and clueless. "But senator, we collect the data because we have to."
    He is a villain. All that is missing is the monocle and the white cat.
    ronnwatto_cobra

  • Amazon UK allegedly destroys millions of unsold items a year, including Apple products

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    What happens to all the cardboard packaging? Amazon and many others are complaining about the shortage of packaging in the UK.
    I really hope that the Jeff 'I'm gonna rule the world' Bezos company does not send and recyclable packaging to incineration. 

    There again, if it costs £0.05 per unit to remove the packaging and a new fresh box costs £0.04 then guess which path they will choose.
    Cheaper is not always the best Mr Bezos.
    williamlondonFileMakerFellerwatto_cobra