Google and Apple CEOs Talking Over Patent Issues

[robochump]

[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]Apple has a patent on touchscreen buttons' shapes, and I do believe also a patent on having a border between the screen and the edge of the phone.[/citation]

Well basically. Apple can patent the overall design of a product. Similar to car brands being able to patent specific grill shapes so other brands cannot copy the design to no longer distinguish their vehicles 'look'. Apple is trying to do the same. Apple designed a unique look to their hardware that all too often is copied. At least Apple tried to work things out with Samsung but they failed to reply. I am glad Samsung got nailed because companies that develop great products should not have their ideas copied for next to no development costs.

I have used this comparison before but look at Samsung's Chromebook PC which has exactly the same look at the MAC Mini. A consumer can easily be confused between the two and is an effort from Samsung to under cut Apple as well as use its Asian influence to further sell similar products from Apple to patriotic Asians that will only buy from Asian companies.

 

[WyomingKnott]

[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]Apple has a patent on touchscreen buttons' shapes, and I do believe also a patent on having a border between the screen and the edge of the phone.[/citation]
I had a TV set with a border between the screen and the edge of the TV before Mr. Smarty-Pants Apple was born!

(this is meant to be humorous)

 

[Guest]

It is time for user communities, developers, and consumers to step in and to define some software User Interface specs, data structures and open areas of OS designs that should belong to the users as private and communities as public instead of belong to proprietary companies. There are things that we all know should not be hijacked by proprietary companies. We must come up with those specs and areas to prevent ourselves being exploited by those look and feel patent trolls.

 

[xpeh]

[citation][nom]robochump[/nom]Well basically. Apple can patent the overall design of a product. Similar to car brands being able to patent specific grill shapes so other brands cannot copy the design to no longer distinguish their vehicles 'look'. Apple is trying to do the same. Apple designed a unique look to their hardware that all too often is copied. At least Apple tried to work things out with Samsung but they failed to reply. I am glad Samsung got nailed because companies that develop great products should not have their ideas copied for next to no development costs. I have used this comparison before but look at Samsung's Chromebook PC which has exactly the same look at the MAC Mini. A consumer can easily be confused between the two and is an effort from Samsung to under cut Apple as well as use its Asian influence to further sell similar products from Apple to patriotic Asians that will only buy from Asian companies.[/citation]

Can't forget the thousands of Mini-ITX PCs that Apple copied with their Mac Mini

 

[raf23]

[citation][nom]belardo[/nom]MS didn't have a mainstream GUI OS until Windows95. NT3.5 was pretty much useless.[/citation]
This, like the idea that apple invented the smartphone, is just outright ignorance on which apple relies

 

[raf23]

[citation][nom]robochump[/nom]Well basically. Apple can patent the overall design of a product. Similar to car brands being able to patent specific grill shapes so other brands cannot copy the design to no longer distinguish their vehicles 'look'. Apple is trying to do the same. Apple designed a unique look to their hardware that all too often is copied. At least Apple tried to work things out with Samsung but they failed to reply. I am glad Samsung got nailed because companies that develop great products should not have their ideas copied for next to no development costs. I have used this comparison before but look at Samsung's Chromebook PC which has exactly the same look at the MAC Mini. A consumer can easily be confused between the two and is an effort from Samsung to under cut Apple as well as use its Asian influence to further sell similar products from Apple to patriotic Asians that will only buy from Asian companies.[/citation]
Your post is factually incorrect absurdity piled on tip of ignorance. Apple didn't' invent the smartphone nor the slate looking smartphone! and it didn't nor would it ever win a case on that.
Your post actually argues Apple copied others.
As far as laptops, apple copied Toshiba for a decade. And more recently it was NOT the first with an ultrathjin aluminum case. Again for people who know the facts you are actually that all of apples products are copies of others.
Apple NEVER would have won this case without a hometown jury.

 

[Guest]

All this will do is force apple lovers to become more computer literate, learn how to jailbreak there phones, and circumvent any limits apple places on "there phones" (because even though you spent hundreds of dollars on a phone you fill with all your most sensitive social data, i.e your names, numbers and addresses, it's still "there phone" - Bullshit)