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[gkontoletas]

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Ακόμη μια απόφαση δικαστηρίου εκτός ΗΠΑ δεν δικαιώνει την Apple.
Αυτή τη φορά δικαστήριο στην Ολλανδία αποφάσισε ότι η Samsung δεν έχει αντιγράψει την Apple στο σχεδιασμό των Galaxy tabs.

A Dutch court, citing previous decisions in British courts, has ruled that some Samsung Electronics Galaxy tablets do not infringe an Apple design.

Wednesday's ruling by a district court in The Hague concerned the rounded corners of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1, Galaxy Tab 8.9, and Galaxy Tab 7.7.

"We continue to believe that Apple was not the first to design a tablet with a rectangular shape and rounded corners and that the origins of Apple's registered design features can be found in numerous examples," Samsung said in a statement.

Apple and Samsung, the world's top two smartphone makers, are locked in patent disputes in at least 10 countries as they vie to win customers for their latest gadgets in the lucrative mobile market.

Αυτές οι στρογγυλεμένες γωνίες δεν υπήρχαν μέχρι τη στιγμή που τις ανακάλυψε η Apple, για τον σχεδιασμό αυτό έχει και πατέντα...:111:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/16/us-apple-samsung-dutch-idUSBRE90F0ZN20130116

 

[gkontoletas]

Η THX του George Lucas μήνυσε την Apple για την παράνομη χρήση τεχνολογιών που αφορούν την τοποθέτηση ηχείων και τον τρόπο αναπαραγωγής του ήχου σε οθόνες flat panel και φορητές συσκευές.

THX, the sound innovation company founded by George Lucas, filed suit against Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Thursday, claiming that various models of the iPhone, iPad and iMac product lineups infringe on a single speaker patent for a "narrow profile speaker."

According to the complaint, Apple knowingly infringed and continues to infringe upon THX's U.S. Patent No. 7,433,483 for "Narrow profile speaker configurations and systems," a property granted in 2008 describing methods to effectively enhance sound quality in compact speaker arrangements integrated into consumer electronics like computers and televisions.

As noted by Bloomberg, THX claims Apple's violation caused monetary damages and irreparable harm, and seeks royalties or damages to make up for lost profit.

Best known for its theater sound technology, THX was founded in 2002 and holds numerous patents relating to speaker hardware and acoustics technology. With the company's compalint against Apple, THX is leveraging a specific property covering a system that delivers quality audio from a speaker disposed in a confined area. More specifically, one of the patent's claims notes the output aperture, sometimes referred to as the speaker duct, is relatively more narrow than the speaker face.

The '483 patent also describes a system in which a sound reflecting surface is parallel with the the drive unit, or speaker face, and mounting surface, with sound dampening material placed around the reflecting and mounting surfaces to create an acoustically isolated environment. Sound is channelled toward a narrow sound duct which is positioned at a right angle in relation to the drive unit.
Alleged infringing devices include iPhone models from the 4S onward and undisclosed iterations of the iPad and iMac. Looking at the patent claims, there appears to be some correlation with the configurations used in Apple's products. Perhaps most compelling is the latest iMac's speakers, which features an extremely thin profile with channeled acoustics exiting down-facing apertures that are more narrow than the speaker faces hidden within the machine. It is unknown if the speaker housings actually employ '483 patent's designs, though the structure looks to be similar to those described.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13...patented-speaker-tech-in-iphone-ipad-and-imac

 

[gkontoletas]

Ένα μήνα περίπου πριν γίνει η δίκη εναντίον της Amazon η Apple αποφάσισε να παραιτηθεί από την υπόθεση.
Η Apple είχε μηνύσει την Amazon για τη χρήση του όρου App Store στο ηλεκτρονικό κατάστημα εφαρμογών της.

U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland, California, on Tuesday ordered that the case be dismissed at the companies' request, averting a trial that had been scheduled for August 19.

This came after Apple issued to Amazon a covenant not to sue over the online retailer's use of the term, eliminating the need for Amazon to pursue a counterclaim seeking permission.

Apple began selling applications for mobile devices via its App Store service in July 2008. Amazon launched Amazon Appstore for Android in March 2011. Apple began the lawsuit that month.

"We no longer see a need to pursue our case," Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said. "With more than 900,000 apps and 50 billion downloads, customers know where they can purchase their favorite apps."

Martin Glick, a lawyer for Amazon, said in an interview, "This was a decision by Apple to unilaterally abandon the case, and leave Amazon free to use 'appstore.'"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/09/us-apple-amazon-appstore-lawsuit-idUSBRE9680TT20130709

 

[Zizik]

Patent troll.

 

[gkontoletas]

Η Apple εκρίθει ένοχη για συμμετοχή σε "συνωμοσία" μαζί με εκδότες που είχε σκοπό την αύξηση των τιμών στα e-books.
Η όλη διαδικασία ξεκίνησε στα τέλη του 2009 λίγο καιρό πριν η Apple παρουσιάσει το iPad.
Οι εκδοτικές εταιρίες δεν δικάστηκαν λόγω της συνεργασίας τους με τις αρχές για την αποκάλυψη της συνωμοσίας.
Εκκρεμεί ακόμα η διαδικασία της επιβολής προστίμου.

In a decision that could reshape how books are sold on the Internet, a federal judge ruled that Apple Inc conspired to raise the retail prices of e-books in violation of antitrust law, and called for a trial on damages.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan is a victory for the U.S. government and various states, which the judge said are entitled to injunctive relief.

Apple had been accused of colluding with five publishers to boost e-book prices beginning in late 2009, as the Silicon Valley giant was preparing to launch its popular iPad tablet.

The U.S. Department of Justice said this conspiracy was designed to undercut online retailer Amazon.com Inc's dominance of the fast-growing e-books market.

Only Apple went to trial, while the publishers - Lagardere SCA's Hachette Book Group Inc and Macmillan, News Corp's HarperCollins Publishers LLC, Pearson Plc's Penguin Group (USA) Inc and CBS Corp's Simon & Schuster Inc - settled with the U.S. government and the states.

Cote said the conspiracy resulted in prices for some e-books rising to $12.99 or $14.99, when Amazon had sold for $9.99.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/10/apple-ebooks-idUSL1N0FG0IZ20130710

 

[gkontoletas]

Αρχίζουν να υπάρχουν ανατροπές....
Δικαστήριο έκρινε κατά της Apple σε υπόθεση που αφορούσε την πατέντα pinch-to-zoom, η απόφαση δεν είναι τελική.

Between 1 AM and 2 AM local time on Sunday, Samsung's counsel in the intellectual property dispute with Apple notified the court of a "final" Office action by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) rejecting all claims of Apple's pinch-to-zoom API patent, U.S. Patent No. 7,844,915 on "application programming interfaces for scrolling operations", including its claim 8, which one federal jury found infringed by numerous Android-based Samsung devices about a year ago and with respect to which another jury will have to redetermine damages in November 2013 for a dozen of those products (the retrial is about 13 products, 12 of which were found to infringe this patent).

Samsung claims to have a workaround in place for the '915 patent that makes no difference to end users but steers clears of infringement, which Apple disputes.

Based on Apple's damages claims, the pinch-to-zoom API patent is the most valuable multitouch software patent at issue in the first Apple v. Samsung litigation in the Northern District of California, but most of the damages in that case relate to design patents. Also, I believe that the patents at issue in the second Apple v. Samsung case in San Jose, scheduled to go to trial next spring, are, on average, considerably more valuable than the ones asserted in the first case.

http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/07/uspto-hands-down-final-but-not-really.html

 

[gkontoletas]

Ο Ομπάμιας άσκησε βέτο σε απόφαση που απαγόρευε την εισαγωγή προϊόντων της Apple στις ΗΠΑ που χρησιμοποιούν πατέντες της Samsung χωρίς φυσικά την άδειά της.
Η απαγόρευση αφορά σχετικά παλαιά μοντέλα και δεν είναι κρίσιμη για τις πωλήσεις της Apple, δείχνει όμως μια περίεργη ευαισθησία του "προέδρου"...

http://9to5mac.com/2013/08/03/president-obama-vetos-apple-iphone-4-3g-ipad-2-product-ban/

 

[xfader]

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Ο Ομπάμιας άσκησε βέτο σε απόφαση που απαγόρευε την εισαγωγή προϊόντων της Apple στις ΗΠΑ που χρησιμοποιούν πατέντες της Samsung χωρίς φυσικά την άδειά της.
Η απαγόρευση αφορά σχετικά παλαιά μοντέλα και δεν είναι κρίσιμη για τις πωλήσεις της Apple, δείχνει όμως μια περίεργη ευαισθησία του "προέδρου"...

http://9to5mac.com/2013/08/03/president-obama-vetos-apple-iphone-4-3g-ipad-2-product-ban/

Τι ήθελες δηλαδή; Να πάρει το μέρος της Samsung; Ή ν' αρχίσει να βλέπει ...ΕΡΤ;

 

[gkontoletas]

Η απόφαση είναι προκλητική από όποια μεριά κι αν τη δει κανείς, ακυρώνει δικαστική απόφαση, εμπλέκεται ξεκάθαρα στις ρυθμίσεις της "ελεύθερης" αγοράς και πλήττει ξεκάθαρα την "ουδετερότητα" του πρόεδρα.


​Θα του τα χώσει αύριο ο Τόνι...

 

[xfader]

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Κάπως έπρεπε να φανεί ότι δεν είναι όλα ίσα κι όμοια. Η ταξικότητα ισχύει και στις εταιρείες.
Κάτι τέτοια κάνει ο μαυρούλης και θ' αρχίσω να τον συμπαθώ.

 

[gkontoletas]

O Jobs κατά την παρουσίαση του πρώτου iPhone έδειξε την διαχείριση βιβλιοθήκης φωτογραφιών χωρίς όμως να έχει πατέντα για τις διαδικασίες, το αίτημα για την κατοχύρωση έγινε στις ΗΠΑ εντός του προβλεπόμενου διαστήματος, στην Ευρώπη όμως δεν ισχύουν τα ίδια και η Apple την πάτησε στην Γερμανία....

Steve Jobs is a named inventor of more than 300 Apple patents, and when he presented the original iPhone in January 2007, hesaid, "boy have we patented it!"

But Apple forgot about an important difference between U.S. patent law at the time and the patent laws of the rest of the world, especially Europe. In the United States in the pre-America Invents Act days, innovators had a twelve-month grace period to file for inventions after making an invention, and during those twelve months nothing that anyone would show publicly or publish would be eligible as prior art. In Europe, however, there never was such a grace period for patent applications, and even an inventor's own public demos could always be held against his own patents if they took place before the filing of an application. Even now, with the AIA in force, U.S. patent law has an exception in place for pre-filing disclosure by the inventor (35 U.S.C. 102(b)(1)(A)). Europe has always been stricter.

As a result of this difference between jurisdictions, the Munich-based Bundespatentgericht (Federal Patent Court of Germany) today sided with Samsung and Google's Motorola Mobility in declaring an Apple iPhone patent, EP2059868 on a "portable electronic device for photo management", invalid within the borders of Germany because a video of the original January 2007 iPhone presentation already showed the famous bounce-back effect in the photo gallery, which is what this patent is all about. The court also rejected various amended claims proposed by Apple, which were an attempt to distinguish the patent from what was shown in the video, because it found them to be, at best, obvious over the Steve Jobs video, which Google's lawyers from the Quinn Emanuel firm submitted to the court in April 2013. In other words, even an amended version of the patent would be trivial, but not over what others created before -- only over Apple's own public demo.

http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/09/video-of-steve-jobss-iphone.html

 

[gkontoletas]

Τέλος ο πόλεμος μεταξύ Apple και Google για τις πατέντες...

Apple Inc and Google Inc's Motorola Mobility unit have agreed to settle all patent litigation between them over smartphone technology, ending one of the highest profile lawsuits in technology.

In a joint statement on Friday, the companies said the settlement does not include a cross license to their respective patents.

"Apple and Google have also agreed to work together in some areas of patent reform," the statement said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/16/us-apple-google-settlement-idUSBREA4F0S020140516

 

[gkontoletas]

Neonode N1m Windows CE 2005, μερικά χρόνια πριν το iphone, οι κλεψιές της Apple είναι εμφανέστατες...
αυτές τις κλεψιές τις έχει πατεντάρει σαν δικές της ιδέες και σ' αυτές στηρίζονται όλες οι δικαστικές διαμάχες που έχει τα τελευταία χρόνια....

 

[ryk]

Neonode N1m Windows CE 2005, μερικά χρόνια πριν το iphone, οι κλεψιές της Apple είναι εμφανέστατες...
αυτές τις κλεψιές τις έχει πατεντάρει σαν δικές της ιδέες και σ' αυτές στηρίζονται όλες οι δικαστικές διαμάχες που έχει τα τελευταία χρόνια....

Έχω το Ν2 σαν κύριο τηλ από το 2008 και είναι όντως εύκολο να τις καταλάβεις.
Α, και η οθόνη δουλεύει με υπέρυθρες και όχι με άσκηση πίεσης!

 

[lesarros]

Neonode N1m Windows CE 2005, μερικά χρόνια πριν το iphone, οι κλεψιές της Apple είναι εμφανέστατες...
αυτές τις κλεψιές τις έχει πατεντάρει σαν δικές της ιδέες και σ' αυτές στηρίζονται όλες οι δικαστικές διαμάχες που έχει τα τελευταία χρόνια....

Και το ανακάλυψαν 9 χρόνια μετά?
Για κλοπή λειτουργικού σε υπολογιστή έχουμε να πούμε κάτι ή κάνουμε την πάπια?

 

[gkontoletas]

βρε Λεωνίδα όλοι λίγο πολύ κάτι κλέβουν, αλλά δεν μηνύουν τους άλλους γι' αυτά που έχουν κλέψει....

 

[lesarros]

Εμείς δεν κάνουμε τέτοια!

 

[abcd]

Ποιοι είστε 'εσείς'';

 

[lesarros]

Είμαστε οι "Αλλοι"!

 

[lesarros]

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