Apple suit against Samsung dealing with "pinch-to-zoom" is stayed by German Court
0. phoneArena posted on 11 May 2012, 23:18
As expected, the German Federal Patent Court has stayed, or suspended, Apple's suit against Samsung relating to possible infringement of Apple's patent covering "pinch-to-zoom"; the stay will be in place until another court decides on the validity of the patent...
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1. chadrick0814 posted on 11 May 2012, 23:25 20 5
The "slide to unlock" patent suit is my personal favorite. I love the fact that apple will sue over things that were widely-used years before they marched into the patent office, then their CEO says "other companies should invent their own stuff.". Good artists copy, great artists steal, patent, then sue.
21. bigdawg23 posted on 12 May 2012, 07:01 5 3
Apple can apply for patents but when other companies show document of invention long before they did, and they will it wont go any where.
2. AndroidShiz posted on 11 May 2012, 23:47 17 7
Apple. The most hypocritical and powerful scourge on earth. #loathe
4. wendygarett (limited) 5 days ago posted on 12 May 2012, 00:13 15 5
every things that patent by apple is been outdated... dont you all realised that? when you take a look of HTC lockscreen, you will find out that it is zillion times better than the boring 'slide to unlock' :(
5. wendygarett (limited) 5 days ago posted on 12 May 2012, 00:17 7 4
I mean, if apple keep rely too heavily on patent, it would eventually erodes due to demotivation of innovate... patent has expiry!!!
6. iluvtrolling (banned) posted on 12 May 2012, 00:56 5 13
Rather than Samsung not innovating at all and resort to steal IP.
8. Alvin1001 posted on 12 May 2012, 01:06 4 6
samsung's gs3 lockscreen shortcuts is a rip off from htc's lockscreen.
11. hung2900 posted on 12 May 2012, 01:14 9 4
"Not innovating at all"? So who provides the new screen, chip, NAND flash,... to Apple? And then i-S-h-e-e-p-s say: "It's REVOLUTIONARY"
12. Alvin1001 posted on 12 May 2012, 01:15 3 2
they innovate and copy at the same time.
19. ffaarrooqq posted on 12 May 2012, 06:28 0 5
look nokia's symbian belle.
Home screen copy of HTC and Notification Bar copy of ANDROID.
20. TurkeyBacon (banned) posted on 12 May 2012, 06:57 1 0
Symbian has been there since Android, clarify plz./
10. adi4u4882 posted on 12 May 2012, 01:10 3 4
You actually give me a good laugh. Learn how to Troll first before Failing like this. Trying to defend a company who is already got kicked in its arse by the judges.
16. APPLE_R0YALLY (banned) posted on 12 May 2012, 05:45 4 2
We say™ We think™ This is Lord of Trolls or
Huge troller, as in Eaxvac....!?
31. InspectorGadget80 posted on 12 May 2012, 20:26 1 1
Serves u right for being a hypocript and a s... pinch to zoom wasnt invented by Apple or Samsung. What give u right to say Samsung copied? when every manufacturer use pinch to zoom
9. Bluesky02 posted on 12 May 2012, 01:07 12 0
Pinch to Zoom, wasn't that use in Microsoft Coffee table?
18. TurkeyBacon (banned) posted on 12 May 2012, 06:26 2 2
Microsoft and Apple have cross patent licensing agreement, Microsoft & Apple does own some degree of touch/pinch to zoom.
24. remixfa posted on 12 May 2012, 07:11 4 0
they recently got awarded the patent for a very specific style of pinch to zoom. the devil is in the details of the implementation. they dont own "all" pinch to zoom.
13. JcHnd posted on 12 May 2012, 01:18 6 2
They way they're going soon Apple will sue everyone over the invention of the cellphone...
17. ffaarrooqq posted on 12 May 2012, 06:22 6 0
How many times they will sue each other.
Why dont first mobile maker sue all other companies for copying their voice call feature.
22. Maxaravind posted on 12 May 2012, 07:09 2 1
Are we gonna sit and do nothing abt this..........?? If apple succedes in it's patent lawsuits that will mean that you can even patent the way u p*e and can sue any who p*e in that way............(sry for the lang..........)
23. Maxaravind posted on 12 May 2012, 07:09 0 1
Are we gonna sit and do nothing abt this..........?? If apple succedes in it's patent lawsuits that will mean that you can even patent the way u p*e and can sue any who p*e in that way............(sry for the lang..........)
27. u-suck-more posted on 12 May 2012, 09:16 1 0
Apple should really be renamed to Grape. cos they are real sour grapes! can't take competition? get out of the game. simple
28. RORYREVOLUTION posted on 12 May 2012, 11:54 3 1
I love how Apple is just targetting Samsing aka their biggest competition when Palm, Microsoft, and even RIM have all used pinch to zoom and many other features.
This isnt about protecting their inventions, its all about fear of competition.
29. taco50 (banned) posted on 12 May 2012, 14:51 1 1
Yea let's give Samsung a pass and ignore how they copy and steal ip and blame Apple instead.
Nice one
30. RORYREVOLUTION posted on 12 May 2012, 17:03 1 1
How do you like that pull down notifications Taco? Yea Apple invented that too right? I mean it hasnt been around since the G1 or anything...
32. u-suck-more posted on 12 May 2012, 21:45 0 0
actually LG feature phones had the pull down notification area, just that it really wasnt for notifications (more for network stats, bluetooth and etc, so i'd think Google just improved it).. so that was even before Android.. but i mean not like Apple cares right? they "invented'' it
33. ycouldbe posted on 14 May 2012, 01:14 1 0
the zoom function now apple?, these petty lawsuits need to stop.






