Judge grants Apple an injunction against the Galaxy Nexus

Post by flatline3 » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 2:01 PM UTC

harshreality wrote: post #57

flatline3 wrote: post #33

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> So apple should be off the hook for innovation once it's released a product and gained a "market position"? I don't see evidence that Apple is resting on their laurels, but I do remember what happened with Mac OS and Windows back in the 80s/early 90s. > "A means of searching multiple databases and sources for data." Last I checked federated search has had a wikipedia article since 2005. Hardly seems like innovation…

It's a one-line description of a patent. I have no idea what it actually covers, do you? This argument frequently pops up in discussions of some patent troll action. While patents are always more specific than a one sentence description, when you read the patent claims, the extra bits that make the patent more specific are not the interesting part of the patents. That's why one-sentence descriptions exist; they disti…

Post by flatline3 » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 9:50 PM UTC

smokeyj wrote: post #62

flatline3 wrote: post #60

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Actually, it would have been good because competition is good, and Microsoft proceeded to sew up the market as a monopoly for decades, using a slew of underhanded tricks to do so, and grossly undermining the position of the primary innovator who held a far better product. It wasn't until Windows 2K that MS even began to catch up to Apple's work, and then Apple leapfrogged with the NeXT purchase.

> using a slew of underhanded tricks You wouldn't be referring to IP shenanigans would you?