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British inventor seeks to take $18B bite out of Apple in bitter patent war

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Re: British inventor seeks to take $18B bite out of Apple in bitter patent war

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Post by Salgat »

saintlunaire wrote: post #3
Aerbil313 wrote: post #2

What exactly is in the patent? A broad description of iTunes’ functions or what? The article doesn’t mention.

This article [1] I found from 2017 goes into a tiny bit more detail: Smartflash was founded in 2000 by inventor Patrick Racz, who obtained several patents on a system for storing data like songs, videos and games and accessing that data through electronic payments systems. Racz was unable to commercialize the technology and Smartflash sells no products of its own. And then on the connection with Apple: Smartflash’s c…

Sounds like things that had no business being patented.

Re: British inventor seeks to take $18B bite out of Apple in bitter patent war

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Post by us0r »

jlund-molfese wrote: post #4

A detailed overview of the allegedly infringed upon patents can be found at http://patentlyo.com/media/2015/02/6-13-cv-00447-JRG-KNM-423... And then to view the patents themselves, Google has a pretty good site where you can enter US patent numbers, like https://patents.google.com/patent/US7334720B2/en

Knowing nothing about patents and only briefly scrolling through this... wouldn't porn be prior art? Pay for access to content?

Re: British inventor seeks to take $18B bite out of Apple in bitter patent war

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Post by zenapollo »

Based on hearing of Apple’s price gouging behavior for their App Store, especially their poopy-baby response to losing IAP rules in the Epic lawsuit, I would be pleased if he won.

Additionally this might be a good opportunity to donate to a F Apple campaign by donating to this guys legal battle. Just to send the message.

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