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To: Swordmaker

Apple sucks and the notion that you can patent rectangles with rounded edges is patently ridiculous.


10 posted on 08/27/2012 12:38:14 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (.)
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To: jwalsh07; Swordmaker

>> Apple sucks and the notion that you can patent rectangles with rounded edges is patently ridiculous.

Absolutely correct.

Whatever this silly Apple-buttkissing article says, the samsung-apple fight is FAR from over.

Google “apple samsung verdict” and see for yourself.

I live for the day Apple gets their well-deserved smackdown from the US courts.


11 posted on 08/27/2012 12:46:24 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
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To: jwalsh07

“Apple sucks and the notion that you can patent rectangles with rounded edges is patently ridiculous.”

You view it as ridiculous. Yours is an opinion. The Patent Office viewed it as law.


16 posted on 08/27/2012 1:33:36 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Sorry, gone rogue, gone Galt, gone international. Please leave a message. We'll get back to you.)
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To: jwalsh07
Apple sucks and the notion that you can patent rectangles with rounded edges is patently ridiculous.

Well, you can at least read a Samsung press release pretty well. The jury, on the other hand, actually looked at the facts which included emails from Samsung executives scrapping their existing designs and intentionally copying Apple's.

Samsung certainly doesn't think Apple sucks -- after all, they're the ones copying them lock, stock, and barrel and claiming in court that Apple's design is the only workable design out there.

But as for the argument that Apple's designs are non-patentable because they're the only way of doing things, Microsoft, of all companies, proves that false with their phone designs. Note, however, that Microsoft did license Apple's patented technologies that they used, while Samsung refuses to do so.

However, to see the other side of the story, Samsung defends itself from charges of copying Apple.

35 posted on 08/28/2012 4:30:05 AM PDT by kevkrom (Those in a rush to trample the Constitution seem to forget that it is the source of their authority.)
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