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Mark0:
Gizmodo - How the New iPod Nano Copied the Nokia Lumia (Or How the Lumia Copied the iPod Nano)

 :D  :D

Renegade:
More from the hilarity of hypocrisy department:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/21/apple-stole-clock-swiss-federal-railways_n_1902685.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

Apple Stole Clock Design For iOS 6, Swiss Federal Railways Says

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It gets better...

I sent the story from my SAMUNG tab to my email, checked the link on my desktop, then posted here. But the two articles are very different. The original is quite a bit harsher than the one at "apparently" the same link.

TaoPhoenix:

Well then, I'll turn the matters in a different direction with this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19919298
Samsung Galaxy Nexus ban overturned by US appeals court
"It said the district court in California, which had issued the ban in June, had "abused its discretion in entering an injunction"."

Which, in Court Speak, is pretty bad. "Abused Discretion" is basically what we were all saying in Less-Safe-For-Work terms.  

There's also an awesome phrase to keep an eye on. "Apple must show that consumers buy the Galaxy Nexus because it is equipped with the apparatus claimed in the ’604 patent—not because it can search in general, and not even because it has unified search."

So we have the BAREST beginnings of how to slow down patent abuse:
1. SomePhone has "patented technology to play Angry Birds with live birds using geo-sensors and accelerometer tech in hunting season" or something. Let's even say something like that is innovating, and not obvious - shake your phone at a bird and it falls out of the sky!?

OtherCorp says that the tech infringes on their other patent which got there first, *and then tries to ban sales of the whole phone.*I think this court case is saying that the grumpy corp has to prove that consumers basically stood in the mall and picked which phone to buy based on exactly that tech and no more. "Hmm, this one has a better screen, better sound, better camera, better maps, better music interface, Android store." "Yeah, but mine kills pigeons in the park." "Ooh, I'm sold, I'll do that!"

tomos:
^ ;D
good news anyways :up:

wraith808:
U.S. Office Rejects 2nd Apple Patent

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has dealt a blow to Apple in its legal battle with Samsung Electronics over smartphone patents, declaring that a patent that helped Apple win $1.05 billion in damages against Samsung in a jury trial should not have been granted.

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