Update 8/8/2012: Is Apple really going to do something with this? It’s been 21 days since they supposedly received these patents, July 17th. There’s a new ptition to stop patent abuse from Apple which may be found >>>HERE<<<. Your support is greatly appreciated.
The jig is up, Apple won virtually EVERY significant & vital touch screen patent there is, such as multitouch, lists, and more…
Apple has the power to rip Android apart, Steve Jobs’ grave is rumbling with sounds of bliss as you read this… If you’ve visited his grave lately, you probably felt what was similar to an mini-earthquake or a long lasting explosion in the graveyard, and heard bottles of champagne popping along with joyful screams and shouts of Jobs’ voice muffled by the casket, gravestone, and grass above. Translation: the exact opposite of rolling over in his grave… He’s back from the dead to celebrate… Champagne, anyone?
Remember when the late Apple CEO stated: “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong… I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.” Well, unfortunately he won’t be eating his words anytime in the near future…
Apple was awarded with 25 different touch screen patents. This sounds like no big deal, right? Guess again! Apple can tear down every single touch screen manufacturer, and touch screen based OS including Android. In my opinion the judge made a very poor decision because the government just legally gave Apple the power to monopolize the smartphone business. Well, that’s just my personal belief but, they did essentially that. Will the government really allow this? Many love Apple, I for one don’t, but this is another Microsoft monopoly-like case, except Apple can destroy the competition legally, whereas Microsoft just had dominance. Now is the time for Google to appeal.
As one commenter mentions, there is prior art to Symbian, PalmOS, and others, “As much as I love… many of Apple’s refinements to pre-existing technologies, there is “prior art” found in Windows Mobile, Symbian, PalmOS, AND mobile UI’s for non-smartphone, non-Apple mobile devices that should’ve invalidated this patent on its face.”
As Android Central mentions, Apple has enough funds to keep this judges and lawyers very busy, with Google, & manufactures & tired weary judges begging for mercy on their knees, while Apple could not be more delighted. If Apple gets what they want, you can possibly say goodbye to Android, WebOS, PalmOS, Windows Mobile, possibly even a Microsoft Tablet, and those non-Major OS’d devices such as the LG Rumor Touch, and the Samsung Impression.
Apple Now Owns:
• Pinch To Zoom
• Electronic Lists
• Swipe To Unlock (Not Just the iPhone way of this, the Motorola Froyo, GB, & ICS, Stock ICS, and JellyBean, and more…)
• MultiTouch
• Moving Items On A Screen
• Scrollbars
• “Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying electronic lists and documents”
• Covers file lists, contacts, songs in music libraries, email lists, anything that is displayed in list view on a mobile device screen as well as transparent scrollbars (they appear when you scroll up and down, or horizontally, but disappear when you’re not scrolling).
Comments: “If this goes according to plan, I think I might have to get a restraining order to any Apple Store or any store that sells Apple Products within a 1,000 mile radius…” – Anonymous
Note to Anonymous, I don’t blame you, pal… I am going to put it this way, if I can’t upgrade my device to the Samsung Galaxy S3 in June, because of Apple, I will have a wild tantrum…
Comments that were listed on the RootzWiki site that we think you should read that are important:
• “Perhaps McDonald’s should sue Apple for stolen technology. They were using touch screen POS systems LONG before iPhone hit the street.”
• “It will create a black market for smart phones, I image it would be time for Google to put their money and lawyers on the move and ask for an appeal of these patents because of prior art. Google can go public with this and lead the fight for patent law reform, which would be the solution to the problem here.”
• “I am going to patent usb battery charging, front camera on phone, micro sim, buttons on phone etc…”
Update 4:55pm: Apple Sues Samsung for $2.5 BILLION, which just goes to further prove my point…
This puts Samsung, Motorola, LG, HTC, Sony Ericsson, ASUS, HP, Pantech, ZTE, Huawei, Google, every other touchscreen device manufacturer in despair, along with the carriers that sell these products, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, and their MVNO’s.
This may even extend to tablets, and touch screen PCs, it all depends on the judge presiding the case… How long before Apple gets the Samsung’s Flagship Galaxy S3 banned from most countries? Will the S3 be known as the phone that could have been???”
Apple has been on a winning streak in court (for the most part), but hopefully Google appeals and this causes a mobile patent reform, because this is all together ridiculous. For those who say, “This will never happen…”, I hope you’re right, but the purpose of this article is not saying this will happen for sure, but it is a strong possibility… As someone pointed out to me, Google has a point that they can sue Apple for, “Notification Center” that iOS implemented that was originally featured on Android… Apple has the patents, but I’m guessing as soon as they start to sue the pants out of Android, a judge will put this all to rest, I hope anyways…
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Jay Burke
Sources info: RootzWiki, Android Central
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I’m gone sue apple for the apple design because i ate an apple and it looked like that….apple needs to stop being an ass because karma is a bitch and when google sues apple for notification center APPLE WILL BE GOOGLES BITCH THEN
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In a day and age where musicians and comics, real artists, are working hard to keep greediness out of their art, ridiculous Apple continues to reinforce my disgust at their drug dealer-esque style of business. Pathetic display of greedy and power hungry cry babies that think making it to the top means you stay there forever….alone and by any means. Petty, jealous and spiteful, like so many other fallen dictators. Time for me to make some popcorn and watch this timeless tale unfold.
i hated apple products and the company if you cant keep up with the times and the technology it fast moving and one phone a year don’t cut it . i hope apple goes to hell to go see steve jobs burning. and apple burning now that’s funny
I wonder if it’s that Judge Koh again, she is not too bright…
Time for Google, Microsoft, and the others to team up and buy majority stake in every carrier and stop selling Apple products…
I remember when i first started using touch screen phones way before apple was into cell phones. The iPAQ by HP was one of the first touch screen phones around that i remember seeing in several peoples hands and not just my own. They had scrolling lists, screens and many features way before any of this was mainstream in society and not just phones but tablets too. There were several out way before the iphone came out. These judges have to look at this from a different perspective as these patents that they are giving to apple are just ridiculous and they do not deserve any loyalty payments as this would further hamper efforts by competition to keep prices low and competitive let alone allow for growth and innovation in the industry. Some of the other big players (Microsoft, Google, Samsung, HTC etc.. etc..) need to organize and fight the current copyright laws to protect themselves and the industry from these kinds of ridiculous patents being created.
Real patents should be based on real ideas and innovation that set a benchmark in technology, or any other field, which is superior and different than current technologies available. It is the formation of these ideas and innovations by the rightful owner/owners and the creation of these new technologies and use of these technologies that deserve proper loyalty. Ideas should not be patented, like many comments before mine (some very funny) any idea can be a patent. Who thought of 3D? Who thought of displaying video in HD? Who thought of shutting your lights off with a rocker switch? Nikola Tesla invented the means to harness the power of A/C electricity, should we all be paying his estate loyalty fees per kW/Hour. His patents and ideas were originals that were put to use day to day and eventually stolen from him. Apple is not an inventor of any of the technologies available on their devices, they are responsible for innovating and mass producing an easy to use platform that many (fools if you ask me) prefer to use. If I was the one that “thought” of putting a condom on before intercourse to prevent the spread of disease or unintentional pregnancy, should everyone pay me loyalty every time they use one, and if they use multiple fingers to put them on? Where does it stop.
When Gtalk/G+ Huddles went down this morning, I briefly thought to myself, “Great, Apple invented those too, here we go again!”
Apple’s new slogan/motto:
APPLE®
“Litigation, not Innovation”.
It’s getting quite out of hand!
Agreed…
Well, only time will tell, I think that Google might appeal and these patents may eventually be generalized into basic touchscreen components no matter the manufacturer or Operating System…
Technically, Samsung had plans for a square device with rounded edges, a large screen, and a single button, but when the iPhone came out in 2007, Samsung’s plans did not change… Samsung has been a vital part for the iPhone!
Samsung (for one) has been kicking their “butt” in sales and they are not happy, so they have melody and fight back.
Litigation over innovation is not a good business model.
This will go nowhere. Everyone has the right to build or create whatever they want and even if Apple comes out on top they will probably end up just getting paid for their “art”. So every time someone makes a new phone with their tech apple will get proceeds. Another thing to consider is that Samsung and most other mobile devices are made overseas so what leverage does the judge really have on a foriegn product.
I am sorry but apple did not invent the unlock screen, swipe gesters some other items on the IDevices. My support of apple is done for until apple goes back to the drawing board and begans to create more new tech instead of sue every one. This crap is getting out of hand, apple just needs to stop all this Bull****.
Maybe Levi Strauss should sue Apple too. He came up with the single button concept on pants first. Apple copied him.
This is chicken sh**! Apple is afraid of competition and losing customers, (not that it’s really affecting their bottom line) because people are waking up to the fact that they have other choices. Often with superior hardware and software, as well as an open platform. In their attempt to create a monopoly, they resort to patent trolling and suing any company who poses even a remote threat to their empire. How they were able to get a judge to award them these patents is beyond me and highly suspect. Apple didn’t invent the touchscreen, nor did they invent the smartphone, yet they can receive patents that could bring an entire industry to a standstill? They were essentially just made a legal monopoly! Apple acts like the spoiled, greedy child who can’t play nice with the other kids. You know what Apple, f*** you, take your ball and go home!
Unfortunately, such actions would also hurt Android, but I do get your humor
Alexander Graham Bell invented the first phone and Doctor Martin Cooper invented the cellphone, they should team up and sue Crapple remaking their ORININAL inventions and stealing their ideas. All crapple did was just add a touchscreen to their inventions. Crapple complaining about their competition and halting innovation is just gonna put people out of jobs. Let’s boycott Crapple, it’s just one company. If other devices get shut down, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Sony, Htc, Sony, Nokia, etc. and All the other companies that develop windows7 and android phones will takes a catastrophic hit to most likey shut down the free world in an economical way.
Maybe they should sue apple for using the name apple. Apple has been around since @ least Adam and even. Maybe should sue apple for using the word phone, I’m sure phone was in English dictionary before jobs was even born.