'Apple owes me $2bn'

The Register UK ^ | April 13, 2016 | By Chris Williams

[Swordmaker]

A Detroit woman says Apple owes her $2bn because the iGiant allegedly ripped off her smartwatch idea.

Daisy Washington-Gross has sued [PDF] the Silicon Valley giant in US district court of eastern Michigan, alleging Apple's Watch infringes her patent. She claims she paid $325 to apply for a patent describing a "detachable bleeper disc digital gym shoe computer wrist watch" in July 1996, although her submission doesn't appear to have gone anywhere except the bin. El Reg could find no record of the application.

Your move, Apple ... Washington-Gross's court filing

Washington-Gross's letter to Magistrate Judge Anthony Patti is dated April 1, but it was submitted on April 4 with further paperwork handed in on April 8. Whether this is a joke or serious, it's about to get extremely expensive for someone – and it won't be Apple. ®

[Swordmaker]

To get the full appreciation of the series and hugh import of this lawsuit, one most certainly has to read the original complaint to the Federal Court about Apple, Inc., infringing Daisy Washington-Gross's Patent Pending from 1996 for a "detachable bleeper disc digital gym shoe computer wrist watch" which she claims she invented.

Be certain to scroll through the PDF to find the hand written form and check out the checked boxes Daisy has selected to be included.

[PAR35]

She really stole the idea from Dick Tracy. He had something similar in the 1960s. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28543953/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/lg-shows-dick-tracy-wristwatch-phone/

[Swordmaker]

Ms. Daisy Washington-Gross claims that Apple owes her $2 billion dollars for infringing with the Apple Watch her invention of a "detachable bleeper disc digital gym shoe computer wrist watch," which she file for a patent pending in July 1996. Ms. Daisy is acting in Pro Per in this lawsuit. . . demanding payment for her idea. — PING!

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[Swordmaker]

She really stole the idea from Dick Tracy. He had something similar in the 1960s.

Where's the Gym Shoe component????

[PAR35]

He left that in the magnetic air car.

[smokingfrog]

. In a similar lawsuit filed against Reebok in 2000 and dismissed by a federal judge the following year, Washington-Gross wrote: "I invented the first gym shoe, to help athletic's time their feet [sic]."

[kaehurowing]

Oh come on now, she’s a fraud. I came up with the idea first.

[Flick Lives]

I wish I had a bleeper disk for every frivolous lawsuit that’s come along.

[ctdonath2]

Interesting to hear how she resolves that with the Nike shoe insert thing.

[tubebender]

Why does Maxwell Smart’s shoe phone keep popping up in my data bank…

[Larry Lucido]

Well, she ripped off my detachable beeber.

[Swordmaker]

Well, she ripped off my detachable beeper.

Did you wear that on your head, wrist, or shoe, before she ripped it off you?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Well, she ripped off my detachable beeber.

But...was your beeber unstuneable?