jurassic

"The company has used the analogy of a cupholder in a car" Except to make that analogy relevant in this case, Samsung copied the entire car design for both hardware and software!

Samsung's Karma ran over its Dogma.

gatorguy said:

cali said:

Tech firms fear they can no longer copy Apple or other engineers.

It's not the "engineers". It's the designers, and not because anyone believes there should be no design patents nor penalties for infringing on one. This is about the unequal and out-sized penalties for doing so as compared to infringing on say an A9 processor utility patent. 

If another company causes Apple to lose $1 Billion worth of iPhone sales because it copied the A9 processor, how is that any different than if another company causes Apple to lose $1 Billion worth of iPhone sales because it copied the design of the iPhone 6S? Why should the compensation to Apple be any different in both cases?

"If the Supreme Court sides with Apple and upholds a 120 year-old law governing design patents, it may open the door to a highly lucrative field for patent trolls to exploit" Patent trolls use non-valid patents to sue other companies. How is Apple defending its valid patents and other forms of intellectual property encouraging patent trolls in any way??? That doesn't make any sense.

Finally! Apple is making it desirable for users to listen to music using digital headphones, rather than using the 4 decades old analog headphone jack. Digital not only provides better sound quality (wider and flatter frequency range, wider dynamic range, no static or interference) but it also allows for many features such as software based noise isolation.