Classic Steve Jobs keynote used to invalidate Apple's own patent - Polidicks

[url]http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/classic-steve-jobs-keynote-used-to-invalidate-german-photo-patent-1184703[/url] [quote]Nearly seven years after first showing off the iPhone to the world, a key Apple photo gallery patent has been invalided in Germany - and Cupertino has no one to blame but Steve Jobs himself. ... Despite the late Apple CEO's insistence of "boy, have we patented it!" during the original iPhone keynote in January 2007, it turns out a 12-month grace period Americans enjoy when filing for new inventions doesn't exist overseas. While the keynote video in question cannot be used as prior art in a U.S. patent dispute, European courts are far more restrictive, making an inventor's own public demos fair game if they're dated before an application is filed. The 2007 keynote demo featuring Jobs was shown in court, leaving the judge little choice but to temporarily invalidate the patent until Apple's legal team can come up with other ways to challenge Samsung and Motorola's claims.[/quote]

That's priceless.

I've posted this before but all of their crap is invalidated by that interview where he mentions Stravinsky's "great artists steal" quote.

Karma is a BITCH isn't it, Apple?

Oh, if only the bastard were still alive to see this. Y'know... One day he'll be remembered as the 21st-century Edison, and not in a good way.

[QUOTE=VinLAURiA;42337491]Oh, if only the bastard were still alive to see this. Y'know... One day he'll be remembered as the 21st-century Edison, and not in a good way. [/QUOTE] People look at Edison in a good way? He was a stealing sack of shit.

[QUOTE=VinLAURiA;42337491]Oh, if only the bastard were still alive to see this.[/QUOTE] He's a Buddhist, so he'll get reincarnated somewhere along the line.

[QUOTE]As fate would have it, Apple's rivals were able to use the most incriminating piece of evidence they could possibly come up with: [B]The ghost of Steve Jobs.[/B][/QUOTE] [t]http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/261106_297838206899021_878917358_n.jpg[/t] [QUOTE=Forumaster;42337539]He's a Buddhist, so he'll get reincarnated somewhere along the line.[/QUOTE] he'll become [t]http://scoopertino.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/robojobs.jpg[/t] [I]iSteve[/I]

[QUOTE=pentium;42337529]People look at Edison in a good way? He was a stealing sack of shit.[/QUOTE] Up until very recently when Tesla started getting more recognition, they did. Nowadays he's rightfully seen as nothing more than a PR-savvy businessman who stole and rebranded others' ideas as his own, and for the ones better than his or that he couldn't steal, he used litigation and other dirty tactics to snuff them out before they overshadowed his carefully-constructed reputation as an "innovator." Bastard was seen as a hero and a visionary in his time and for nearly a century afterwards until people realized what he really was. He died knowing the public loved him, at the height of his career; never living to see the illusion break. Sound familiar?

tesla died without a single penny in his pockets in his new york hotel room think about that for a sec

[QUOTE=Recurracy;42338765]tesla died without a single penny in his pockets in his new york hotel room think about that for a sec[/QUOTE] ' All edison really did was electrocute elephants with AC so people would think AC was bad.

[QUOTE=Kyle902;42339350]' All edison really did was electrocute elephants with AC so people would think AC was bad.[/QUOTE] Elephants and people.

[QUOTE=Recurracy;42338765]tesla died without a single penny in his pockets in his new york hotel room think about that for a sec[/QUOTE] at least he had his pigeons <3