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TA wrote on 2011-09-27 09:38
Apple's iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and Apple TV supposedly infringe upon three patents owned by VIA Technologies. VIA is asking the court to halt sales of those products.
What goes around come around. Apple just won a battle against Samsung which resulted in the banning of the latter company's Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany. The German courts agreed with the fruity iPad developer in that the company owns exclusive rights to minimalist tablet designs (and apparently Stanley Kubrick does not). Citing patent infringement, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 cannot be imported or sold within the German borders.
But now Apple is facing a patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by Taipei-based motherboard, CPU, and chipset maker VIA Technologies, Inc. Submitted to the U.S. Federal Court in Wilmington, Delaware, VIA is crying patent infringement (who isn't anymore) and seeking a jury trial along with a plea to the court to ban the sale of Apple's iPad, iPhone, iPod and Apple TV products.
According to the lawsuit, these devices infringe upon three of its U.S.-based patents -- two filed in 2001 and the third in 2004 -- that "generally provides efficient loading of data in the microprocessors and efficient conversion and transfer of data in the microprocessors." The three patents specifically cover a technical "instruction set for bi-directional conversion and transfer of integer and floating point data" and "method and apparatus for double operand load."
"Microprocessors that include this technology can rapidly load data from memory, directly move data between floating point and integer registers, and rapidly convert data from one another, thereby increasing the operational speed of the microprocessors," VIA said in its suit.
Unfortunately, Apple may have a tough battle ahead. The Delaware Court is supposedly known as a "plaintiff-friendly region," similar to the Eastern District Federal Court of Texas. Banning the sale of Apple products seems a little far-fetched, but if anything, the Cupertino company may have to shell out some big bucks if found guilty.
Timing of the complaint isn't coincidental. Apple is reportedly gearing up to reveal the iPhone 4S on October 4 along with the new iPod Touch model and perhaps even the rumored iPhone 5. A temporary injunction barring Apple from selling "infringing products" would cripple Apple's pre-holiday season sales.
Serves them right if you ask me.
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Osayidan wrote on 2011-09-27 09:47
Good.
Tired of those idiots trying to ban competition all over the place.
Just because someone makes a product better than yours doesn't mean it's illegal, taking samsung to court just proves how worried they are.
I do wish all these big companies would drop these annoying patent lawsuits though, the past few months has been all out war.
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TA wrote on 2011-09-27 10:14
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Akemii wrote on 2011-09-27 10:17
lol I like ipod Touches/iPhones, but I hope they lose.
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TA wrote on 2011-09-27 10:20
I hate touchscreens and how smug they are. So I hope they lose too.
*loves physical keypads*
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Phunkie wrote on 2011-09-27 11:18
Touchscreens are the new thing though.
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TA wrote on 2011-09-27 11:19
Quote from Phunkie;601090:
Touchscreens are the new thing though.
Grow out your nails then try to use them.
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Phunkie wrote on 2011-09-27 11:31
Quote from TA;601094:
Grow out your nails then try to use them.
OR HAVE BIG FAT FINGERS.
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Akemii wrote on 2011-09-27 11:44
Yeah, they can be the most annoying thing for people with nails.
Especially to the idiot women who try to come in and like keep slamming their nails into the credit card machine thingy and I have to tell them like 5 times ot use their fingers before they get it.
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TA wrote on 2011-09-27 11:44
Quote from Phunkie;601102:
OR HAVE BIG FAT FINGERS.
Yeah but at least big fat fingers have heat! Apparently iPhones are heat or skin sensitive or something, so using your fingernails doesn't work.... talk about a load of crap...
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Athde wrote on 2011-09-27 11:49
I usually side with the big business' for some reason. But in this case I am ok with it. Banning the same type of product in another country is the first step towards a Monopoly...
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Kazuni wrote on 2011-09-27 12:15
The reason the iphone/ipod touch touchscreens are so much better than anything else I've seen is because of their skin recognition ._. A lot of my friends have phones that are vibration based, and they suck. They respond so much slower.
I love apple products and I'm going to freak out if they're banned ._. I mean, hell no, I'm not using some no-name MP3 or a blackberry.
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Athde wrote on 2011-09-27 12:47
Quote from Kazuni;601123:
I love apple products and I'm going to freak out if they're banned ._. I mean, hell no, I'm not using some no-name MP3 or a blackberry.
I'm no law expert, but I imagine that it will be pretty hard to ban apple products considering this is their base of operations, and that banning them would effectively put many, MANY people out of a job.
At most they might get them to pay a decent sum of money. And by decent sum I mean an amount that would give us a stroke.
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TA wrote on 2011-09-27 14:15
Quote from Athde;601136:
I'm no law expert, but I imagine that it will be pretty hard to ban apple products considering this is their base of operations, and that banning them would effectively put many, MANY people out of a job.
At most they might get them to pay a decent sum of money. And by decent sum I mean an amount that would give us a stroke.
That's not how patents work. They don't allow people to steal inventions because it would be inconvenient for many people lol...
What will likely happen is that Apple will be forced to pay a ton in royalties, if they lose, or they will (more than likely) settle out of court and pay VIA off.
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Adelynn wrote on 2011-09-27 17:59
Didn't apple Photoshop another product to make it look like their own so that they could sue another company? I'd say if they lose I wouldn't be all that unhappy.