onehunglow

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maestro64 said:

People want to play in the global market, but do not what to spend the money to protect their brand. Brand thrifty is not new it's happen in the past and will happen in the future. This is why Apple trademarks their products all over the world, even Apple had iPad name stolen I China.

I’m not sure if you’re criticising the developers? Expecting a self funded startup to get worldwide, or even major market, protection is unrealistic. It’s understood that China is an IP basket case - IP theft is common even with “protection”. This won’t change until China has competent governance and low corruption (so, maybe never). 

anton zuykov said:

evn616 said:

Unsurprisingly, the gov entertains the existence of these false entities wasting time and energy in a pay to play judicial system. How about restricting patent trolling to only those entities (and respective subsidiaries) that actually have a successful product which they can whine about?

Then, if a person wants to come up with an idea, he wont be able to get it patented due to a rule you have just proposed, and assumg he had no money for setting up the production. 

You can’t patent “ideas”. An invention may start with an idea but needs to be described sufficiently that someone skilled in computer science could implement it. It’s also supposed to be novel - but that seems sadly lacking most of the time. However, evn616 was talking about patent enforcement not acquisition and the idea has a lot of merit and has been widely debated.

ascii said:

If they were original batteries why did Customs think they were knock-offs?

Well he didn’t buy them from Apple, he said that. He also said he bought them from a Chinese manufacturer of original parts - ie. that manufacturer (assuming they are or were a supplier to Apple) is using the trade marks and product designs provided by Apple to create a business selling Apple parts directly to the public in direct contravention of their agreement with Apple (which forbids that). This is fairly common behaviour in China but is still counterfeit. It’s also possible that the manufacturer has never supplied Apple but sells replica parts with stolen Apple branding - still counterfeit. 

Is there a dark mode yet for Apple Music? No? I’m staying with Spotify. I simply can’t have Apple Music open when I drive at night.