In reality, Apple has far less patents that you would expect
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1. axed97 posted on 19 Aug 2011, 09:57 9 0
All the manufacturers need to stop these patent infingment lawsuits and actually spend the money on making a good product if your going to patent something patent the hardware or even the code for the software but not an idea. it seems like phone manufactures are suing competition rather than focusing on making a good product this does not apply only to Apple but all companys in the industry.
2. corporateJP posted on 19 Aug 2011, 10:02 4 1
Great point, but you have to realize, Apple fired the first shot that started this war.
4. dandirk posted on 19 Aug 2011, 10:09 1 5
In some cases yes Apple did fire the first shot, but in others no.
Motorola actually sued Apple first in their current battle.
18. remixfa posted on 19 Aug 2011, 11:52 2 0
moto sued apple after apple started suing everyone else. apple fired the first,2nd, and third shots before anyone fired back.
3. ohhh... (unregistered) posted on 19 Aug 2011, 10:02 0 0
hahahahahahaha
this is so funny
i hope the other company start to look at their patents and claim it
this is the time to make some money like the apple way
btw i have apple iphone and using android and winmo too
but i do not agree with SJ trying to ban samsung and htc, its a dirty trick.
i hope they taste their own poison.
5. TKFox007 posted on 19 Aug 2011, 10:19 0 0
Wow with 1000 patents they sure got a lot of balls to go around and sue people. And they get away with it because they're Apple and their patents are so broad that they can cover anything they want.
6. ilia1986 posted on 19 Aug 2011, 10:30 4 1
Yeah, I heard Apple patented "Patents", so essentially they now own every patent which has ever been submitted - and which will be submitted from now on - in the history of mankind.
Time to make fruit salad, me thinks.
- "Hey Apple. Hey Apple. Hey Apple. Hey Apple."
- "What?!"
- "Knife. Mwhahahahahahhahaaa!!"
7. darth8ball posted on 19 Aug 2011, 10:35 5 1
No surprise here they don't use their own ideas at Apple, they steal others ideas, change one tiny thing and call it Apple Property. What is the likelyhood that with that few patents compared to the companies your suing, that it is them not you that is the copycat.
Apple sux long live Android.
8. darth8ball posted on 19 Aug 2011, 10:37 3 1
And where o where is taco50 on this discussion......
11. SuperAndroidEvo posted on 19 Aug 2011, 10:58 3 2
Yes I am just waiting to see what good old, taco50, The_Miz & the rest of the iSheep herd have to say! This should be interesting!
14. binglut9 posted on 19 Aug 2011, 11:20 4 1
Well its pretty obvious why people hate apple...they are trying to ban products and use false information to ban it...That right there seems to me like a legit reason as a consumer to hate them...I love choice and apple is interfering with that....
26. SuperAndroidEvo posted on 19 Aug 2011, 13:15 1 0
That is a VERY good point!
13. quakan posted on 19 Aug 2011, 11:12 1 1
Nokia is actually worse than Apple...they are leading the pack in patent lawsuits. People just love to hate Apple for some reason.
16. AppleFUD (unregistered) posted on 19 Aug 2011, 11:36 1 1
I think the difference is, Nokia actually does have real patents for lots of hardware innovations/inventions. Apple has lots of vague patents for software that they are suing over in which there are tons of prior art--you know, like rounded corns on their icons, a grid of icons, locking the browser into scrolling vertical or horizontal, etc. . . And apple feels they can use anyone else's tech and not pay for it--like using Nokia's radio patents.
Apple doesn't have original innovative ideas. They are great at putting together tech and tweaking it in certain ways and very good at marketing the devices. . . Steve just can't accept that he & his company are not inventors and creators of new tech. They think because they added something onto already existing tech that they then "created something completely new" and then they go around spewing that such nonsense and their fans believe every work of it and regurgitate it endless on the web. . .
19. remixfa posted on 19 Aug 2011, 11:53 3 0
nokia sues when it has an easy road and a clear cut violation. those DO actually happen. many companies have sued apple and won.. infact most have. apple on the other hand is using the most vague rules and straight up tricks and games to try to stiffle competition. Nokia didnt sue to shut them down, they sued to protect IP and get paid accordingly. there is a big difference.
9. som posted on 19 Aug 2011, 10:47 0 1
May be a lot of companies will knock on Apple door very soon. Apple 1000 patents is nothing compare to 10000 patents.
10. ApplePaysMyBills (unregistered) posted on 19 Aug 2011, 10:55 2 2
Apple has been making the same phone for 6 years now. They dont need as many patents as samsung, who has made hudreds of phones, cameras, accessories EXT.
12. dandirk posted on 19 Aug 2011, 11:11 1 0
As they said, its not how many you have but which ones.
Motorola has been around a while, how many of their 17k are for punch card computers??? lol
Only 1000 is pretty low considering those probably include patents for imac, and the old macintosh.
15. binglut9 posted on 19 Aug 2011, 11:24 0 0
moto also has 7,000 other patents that are pending so that makes it 24,000 thats a whole lot of patents and that is one reason why google went after moto to buy them because now all of android will be protected with these patents....How many are for smartphones who knows but moto has been around the phone game for a while
17. Ohh... (unregistered) posted on 19 Aug 2011, 11:38 1 1
"In reality, Apple has far less patents that you would expect."
That would make sense for apple to be sueing everyone around for patent infrignment..
