Highly illegal: Apple agrees to pay royalties for plagiarised clock design - Polidicks

[img]http://imgkk.com/i/tupt.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/12/3492896/apple-sbb-licensing-agreement-ios-6-clock-app[/url] [quote=The Verge]Apple has agreed to pay the Swiss national railway (SBB) for use of its iconic clock design in iOS 6's Clock application. Last month, [url=http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/21/3367216/apple-sbb-mondaine-clock-watch-design-plagiarism]Apple was accused of plagiarizing the design[/url], made famous by watchmaker Mondaine, and an SBB spokesperson said that it would be seeking "an amicable agreement and compensation" from the electronics giant. That agreement didn't take too long to materialize, as SBB today announced that the two companies have [url=http://www.sbb.ch/sbb-konzern/medien/medienmitteilungen.newsdetail.2012-10-1210_1.html]agreed upon and signed a licensing agreement[/url]. Neither company has disclosed how much the agreement is costing Apple.[/quote]

Well, at least they've had a taste of their own medicine now.

It [I]is[/I] a well-designed clock. [editline]12th October 2012[/editline] The Swiss know their clocks.

They didn't think they'd just be able to slide by without anyone noticing, did they?

[QUOTE=Bentham;38011066]They didn't think they'd just be able to slide by without anyone noticing, did they?[/QUOTE] It's a ridiculous thing to have a patent on. It's not like SSB loses money because Apple uses their clock design.

[QUOTE=Bentham;38011066]They didn't think they'd just be able to slide by without anyone noticing, did they?[/QUOTE] To be honest, it's the most generic looking clock design I've ever seen.

[QUOTE=Aphtonites;38011059]Well, at least they've had a taste of their own medicine now.[/QUOTE] It's payback time, the clock is ticking for Apple

i guess the defining feature is the red ball on the second hand idk its a nice looking clock

That mighty fine clock is worth the royalties.

Looks like the clocks all over my old high school. The second hand is red, too, save for the ball at the end.

For anyone rating late, prepare to get sued!

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[QUOTE=heh;38011460]cocks[/QUOTE]l

[QUOTE=Paramud;38011086]To be honest, it's the most generic looking clock design I've ever seen.[/QUOTE] that's because it was designed way back in 1944 and has pretty much been copied everywhere since

Clocks are dying out anyway. No one needs to wear a watch anymore because of smartphones and other portable gadgets. Everything tells the time on it now.

[QUOTE=jaykray;38013904]Clocks are dying out anyway. No one needs to wear a watch anymore because of smartphones and other portable gadgets. Everything tells the time on it now.[/QUOTE] which means soon we may be able to convert the world to 24 hour time? please?

[QUOTE=lavacano;38013921]which means soon we may be able to convert the world to 24 hour time? please?[/QUOTE] ok

[QUOTE=jaykray;38013933]ok[/QUOTE] Thankyou President of Clocks

[QUOTE=jaykray;38013904]Clocks are dying out anyway. No one needs to wear a watch anymore because of smartphones and other portable gadgets. Everything tells the time on it now.[/QUOTE] But watches are awesome. Besides good luck pulling out your phone to check the time while you are taking a test. Besides, watches can be pretty classy.

[QUOTE=jaykray;38013904]Clocks are dying out anyway. No one needs to wear a watch anymore because of smartphones and other portable gadgets. Everything tells the time on it now.[/QUOTE] I wear a watch because I don't have a smartphone.

[QUOTE=Edthefirst;38013979]But watches are awesome. Besides good luck pulling out your phone to check the time while you are taking a test. Besides, watches can be pretty classy.[/QUOTE] I don't think you're allowed watches in a test either, they have a big clock at the front of the room you can look at. Watches can be classy but I don't know why. People paying hundreds if not thousands of pounds for watches does not make sense.

We have pretty much gone back to pocket watches

[QUOTE=mac338;38011081]It's a ridiculous thing to have a patent on. It's not like SSB loses money because Apple uses their clock design.[/QUOTE] You know, kinda like bounce-back and rounded edges

[QUOTE=mac338;38011081]It's a ridiculous thing to have a patent on. It's not like SSB loses money because Apple uses their clock design.[/QUOTE] A design is a design, just like a piece of art or music. Intellectual property. A company has NO right to use it and make money with it, without a license.

Suing over a clock face?

oh just look how modern and sleek that clock is

[QUOTE=jaykray;38014009]I don't think you're allowed watches in a test either[/QUOTE] what the hell could you do to cheat on a test with a watch

[QUOTE=BloodYScar;38014067]A design is a design, just like a piece of art or music. Intellectual property. A company has NO right to use it and make money with it, without a license.[/QUOTE] Why can parallel ideas not exist? It's insane that we try to innovate by allowing only one person to attempt any idea and give them ownership of it, regardless of how successful they are. Imagine if every company could patent their own steering wheel? What if the light-bulb filament had been patented and limited to only one company until the patent had run out? Our present patent system could not have worked at any prior point in our country and would have stifled the innovation that made us successful. Ideas are not property - inventions are. You should be able to patent a specific blueprint, but not the idea of spreading two fingers on a phone's screen to zoom in.

It's such a basic design, though. It's so funny how companies can throw lawsuits around based on the accusation that "I thought of it first and you can't design yours like mine without proper credit and legal clearance". It's kind of childish, actually. Well, Apple had this coming to them anyways.

[QUOTE=lavacano;38015854]what the hell could you do to cheat on a test with a watch[/QUOTE] it's a mental slide rule that allows you to scroll your focus from 1-12, and 1-60. It assists in most basic functions like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It can speed up your work and improve your accuracy quite a bit, actually. Aside from being a number line from 1 - 12 which is divided into fifths (useful when estimating added and subtracted fractions), it's a circle that is divided into 12 triangles, so it can help when visualizing and calculating geometry and percentages. With a little projection, an analogue clock can be seen as divided into halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, and twelfths. 50%, 33%, 25%, 16(~.6)%, and 8% respectively. I've used it in statistics and algebra class when figuring out and keeping track of multiple variables.