Apple v. Samsung at the US Supreme Court
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Posted on 07/29/2016 10:28:18 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple Inc on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd over whether Apple should receive damages in a case about smartphone design patents.
In its legal brief, Apple said Samsung has introduced "no evidence" that design patent damages should be decided on anything less than the value of an entire smartphone. Apple said there was no need for the Supreme Court to send the case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
The world's top smartphone rivals have been feuding over patents since 2011, when Apple sued Samsung in a northern California court, alleging infringement of the iPhone's patents, designs and trademarked appearance
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And in other news:
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/07/29/tim-cook-hillary-clinton-fundraiser/
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"Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to host a fundraiser that will benefit Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, reports BuzzFeed. Cook, along with Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president of environment, policy, and social initiatives, will host the event as private citizens, not as representatives of Apple. "
At least they are not attaching Apple's name to it. . . just as Steve Jobs kept Apple out of politics. Everything attributed to Apple was actually the Apple Employees' Political Action Committee, an independent organization not affiliated with Apple and not funded by the company.
Hitching their wagon to a sinking ship, or something like that.
My brother-in-law invented the precursor to the iPod/iPad interface at MIT in 1990.
Here’s a link to one of his demonstrations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdMUt0VHlP8
He demonstrated this system to Stephen Jobs, who discounted it as useless technology and then stole it. None of his lawsuits could gain traction, so now he gets paid WELL by Samsung to present this video and explain away Apple’s concept of “prior art” during these suits.
Wow! You’re brother-in-law was WAY ahead of his time!!!
When my sister married him in 1991, the entire family was raving about his invention. Back then, such a think was only seen on Star Trek. Everybody expected it to be used for MUSIC. Go figure.
Sorry my FRiend, but all of those Gestures were existing things in software in the Amiga computer desktop publishing package called PageStream from the mid 1980s. It was ported to the Mac by the early 1990s. It is still available for Amiga, Mac, Windows, Atari, and Linux. I used it to create many pages of graphics and was quite well paid for it.
Incidentally, those gestures have nothing at all to do with the iPhone or iPad drawing systems, or the operation of those devices. In addition, it is impossible for him to have demonstrated it to Steve Jobs of Apple at that time because Steve was NOT even associated with Apple in 1990 to 1997. Apple, minus Steve Jobs, had also already developed gestures for the Newton handwriting recognition system in 1987-1989, so they could not have stolen those.
Apple's ability to move objects around a screen and draw on a screen pre-dated your relative's development by at least eight years, as Apple draw was always a part of AppleOS from 1982, which included the ability to lasso multiple objects to group them.
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