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Submission + - Chinese Company Threatens to Sue Apple over iPhone 5 Patent (yahoo.com)

Submitted by AstroPhilosopher on Thursday September 06, 2012 @03:15PM

AstroPhilosopher writes: Probably picking up on the latest in patent lawsuits, a Chinese company used leak photos of the upcoming iPhone 5 to create a knockoff. They then patented the design in China and have threatened to sue Apple for infringement should they attempt to sell the iPhone 5 in China.

Clearly a case of what goes around comes around.

Submission + - "Sue Us", Says Site Protesting "Ridiculous" UK Cookie Law (techweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by

judgecorp

on Thursday September 06, 2012 @01:01PM

judgecorp writes: ""Dear ICO. Sue us", says nocookielaw.com, a site set up to protest the "ridiculous" UK cookie law, which requires all sites to gain their users' permission before using any "non-essential" cookies, and has put the regulator, the Information Commissioiner's Office (ICO) in charge of enforcement. The site was set up by Silktide, a company which offers cookie compliance solutions, but clearly feels the work is somewhat unrewarding."

Comment Re:Judge Rya Zobel (Score 1) 312

by is not primary on Thursday August 23, 2012 @05:27PM (#41101783) Attached to: New Judge Assigned To Tenenbaum Case Upholds $675k Verdict

Anyways, I'd be curious to see the list of songs - just to see where those songs are in the charts / profit margins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_v._Tenenbaum#31_songs

Comment Re:Samsung have themselves to blame...not the Judg (Score 1) 404

by is not primary on Thursday August 02, 2012 @02:04PM (#40858763) Attached to: Apple Asks Court To Sanction Samsung; Samsung Fires Back; More iPhone Prototypes

To be fair, both sides are submitting a lot of evidence right? So it takes time to prepare, submit and present each and every item, and as the AC pointed out and the article hints at, it was a response to Apple's evidence, I think from the previous day (I might be misreading that).

Nice rhetoric though. I like the part with the astronauts.

Comment Re:Let's look at the dates (Score 2) 404

by is not primary on Thursday August 02, 2012 @01:23PM (#40858139) Attached to: Apple Asks Court To Sanction Samsung; Samsung Fires Back; More iPhone Prototypes

"The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone

"Using Vodafone as its network provider, the phone was first introduced at the 3GSM World Congress that was held in February 2007. Sales to the European market started November 2007."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SGH-F700

The iPhone was announced a month prior to the F700, it had a real smartphone OS, a full fledged browser and email client, no slide-out keyboard. So is Samsung saying that Apple used a time machine because the iPhone was in development long before 2006 and was in customers hands 4 months before the Samsung device.

In the same link you submitted it says the patent of the F700 was submitted in December '06. Prior to the announcements of the iPhone in Jan '07. Before said announcement, the looks of the iPhone were kept very secretive (http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/10/commentary/lewis_fortune_iphone.fortune/index.htm). I think the main point Samsung is making, is that they could not of copied the iPhone for its F700. Essentially, its the would be ace in Samsung's hand for that point, they just wanted a way to play the card.None of this is info that isn't already in the public domain so IMO the judge was unfair to dismiss it (although it maybe a case of rules are rules), but more so to get angry about Samsung's actions. I think the whole counter claims and back and forth are primarily to add pressure to the legal teams.

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