• Apple sued for infringing patents on Mac, Safari, and Mac OS X
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[url=http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/18/apple-sued-for-infringing-patents-on-mac-safari-and-mac-os-x/] From "The Loop" : [/url] [quote][b]Apple is being sued for infringing on patents for the way it summarizes data on its Mac computers and Mac OS X operating system.[/b] Apple sued for infringing patents on Mac, Safari, and Mac OS XMONKEYmedia filed the patent infringement lawsuit in the Western District of Texas, Austin Division on May 13. The lawsuit claims that Apple infringes on three of its patents, including one that describes “the summarization and/or variable display of text and audio-visual content, based on the saliency of the content.” The three patents were issued in 2001 and 2002. As an example, Safari’s RSS Reader has the ability to show the headline and text. The amount of text shown can be changed by using a slider, which MONKEYmedia says is covered under its patents. The lawsuit also points to the “Services” menu in Mac OS X that allows users to summarize a selection of text in a document. Again, this feature has a slider that allows more or less text, as determined by the user. Products that MONKEYmedia claims infringe on its patent are the iMac, Mac Pro, Mac Mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac OS X, and Safari for Mac and Windows. MONKEYmedia is asking the court for an unspecified amount of money in damages.[/quote] Not this shit again... [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/emoot/ughh.gif[/img]
Apple have done much worse things that you could've sued them for, probably successfully and for more money, why would you pick something like that?
Hope Apple lose
“the summarization and/or variable display of text and audio-visual content, based on the saliency of the content.” So fading text?
It would be great if they lost, but I don't think anything showstopping will come out of this.
Patent laws are bollocks these days, they need to be re-considered.
ahahaha, It's always funny when Apple gets sued.
Christ, that's ridiculous.
Patent trolls can go to hell. I really hope no legal body will continue to give support to these fucks.
Apple have been suing left and right for patent infringement in the last year, about time those fuckers got some of their own medicine. And what ashxu said.
[QUOTE=acds;22039407]Apple have been suing left and right for patent infringement in the last year, about time those fuckers got some of their own medicine. And what ashxu said.[/QUOTE] Except none of those were anywhere near as dumb as this.
Meh, I'll be happy when the EU brings anti-trust against Apple for bundling their own browser with their own operating system. Sure, it's stupid, but it happened to Microsoft, and Apple are also a successful company so why not?
[QUOTE=BmB;22039022]Patent trolls can go to hell. I really hope no legal body will continue to give support to these fucks.[/QUOTE] Apple fanboy spotted
Are they going to go after Microsoft as well? Word includes similar functionality.
Nice and all that Apple gets sued, but this claim is just stupid.
[QUOTE=JustExtreme;22039821]Meh, I'll be happy when the EU brings anti-trust against Apple for bundling their own browser with their own operating system. Sure, it's stupid, but it happened to Microsoft, and Apple are also a successful company so why not?[/QUOTE] Apple don't have a monopoly which was what happened to Microsoft so don't just assume it's because Microsoft is successful because it was an actual law that was being broken.
Sure, they have a good strong hold on the market but I would not say it was a monopoly.
Software pattens are [b]BULLSHIT[/b]
Give me a list of companies that didn't sue Apple.
Yeah I can name...uh...hold...on I should find some....FUCK IT.
Valve?
Not another one of these dumb Texan companies.
I actually hope Apple wins this one. What a ridicolous patent.
[QUOTE=JustExtreme;22039821]Meh, I'll be happy when the EU brings anti-trust against Apple for bundling their own browser with their own operating system. Sure, it's stupid, but it happened to Microsoft, and Apple are also a successful company so why not?[/QUOTE] Because it shouldn't have happened to Microsoft in the first place.
Incredibly stupid case. I hope Apple loses anyway.
[QUOTE=ProWaffle;22038483]Apple have done much worse things that you could've sued them for, probably successfully and for more money, why would you pick something like that?[/QUOTE] Because if this is a patent issue and they can prove their case, they will get money, no matter how stupid it is. That's patent laws for you. iTunes pays Amazon.com every time you buy a song with 1-click buying. It's copyrighted.
[QUOTE=Tukimoshi;22042228]iTunes pays Amazon.com every time you buy a song with 1-click buying. It's copyrighted.[/QUOTE] What the fuck is this :psyduck:
[QUOTE=veribigbos1;22039839]Apple fanboy spotted[/QUOTE] If it were microsoft being sued by like this you wouldn't say 'microsoft fanboy detected' you're just saying that because it happens to be apple. Not everyone who defends apple/has one of their products/whatever is a fanboy.
[QUOTE=Rasrap Smurf;22042418]If it were microsoft being sued by like this you wouldn't say 'microsoft fanboy detected' you're just saying that because it happens to be apple. Not everyone who defends apple/has one of their products/whatever is a fanboy.[/QUOTE] Microsoft don't make their shit too expensive and it lasts longer and works with more stuff.
You get everything you want with a PC Apple tells you what you need with a mac
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