Comments on: Apple loses UK patent battle

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:12:00 +0000

Oh, wait, BoingBoing couldn’t be arsed with those?

Were you redirected here while searching for “apple news’?

By: Tim Bearcub

Tim Bearcub — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:52:00 +0000

Oh I forgot the Apple’s patent case against Motorola patent being thrown out for the final time, too. And I think they tried to block the SGS3 here in the UK which didn’t fly either. Shame, Apple used to concentrate on making good products rather than patent troll over stuff that it doesn’t really have prior art on, or is evolutionary or not 100%…

I mean at this rate Sony Ericsson should sue over the original iPhone since they had a touch-controlled smartphone out there with apps & wifi way before Apple released theirs (I still have it, the p990i).

By: Tim Bearcub

Tim Bearcub — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:41:00 +0000

Wins?

You mean like the fact they’ve only enforced a sales ban while the legal case is heard, the fact they lost stopping Kodak sell patents that will probably expose Apple to more patent disputes, and Apple having to pay millions for infringing Samsung patents in Netherlands? You mean those ‘wins’? They won the UMTS one in the US, but not elsewhere.

Yeah they’re really #winning. Ahem.If Kodak sells those patents, it’s open season on Apple and others, since I bet a lot of those early digital imaging patents haven’t been enforced…and Kodak pioneered the digital camera, I’m expecting they pioneered a lot more. Apparently tagging for instance…

By: Dimmer

Dimmer — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:52:00 +0000

So, I guess this is counter to the Apple wins (and competing product denials) over the last couple of weeks.

Oh, wait, BoingBoing couldn’t be arsed with those? I reject my guess.

By: scatterfingers

scatterfingers — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:33:00 +0000

As well they should. Defines the very idea of frivolous, that patent.