(cringe)

Yeah, trademark law doesn't work like that.

Ceci n'est pas une horloge. The SBB could have applied for more classes, but they didn't. [shrug]

The SBB refers to "trademark-" and "copy-rights": "Die SBB seien die alleinige Besitzerin der Marken- und Urheberrechte der Bahnhofsuhr, sagte Ginsig." Source: http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/digital/mobil/Apple-kopiert-die-beruehmte-SBBUhr/story/26209939
Hence my remark to copyright.

trade dress is part of trademark law.

The jury decided otherwise, because Samsung copied too many elements at once.

https://www.swissreg.ch/srclient/faces/jsp/trademark/sr300.jsp?language=de&section=tm&id=512830

It's a three dimensional trademark, only for clocks/watches so the two dimensional picture in a phone should be in the clear. And they forgot to put a color photograph in their application, so I guess the color of the second hand may not be protected. And copyright? On a clock? Good luck with that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_immersion_cooling#Liquid_submersion_cooling

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/22/business/technology-investor-s-pullout-stirs-doubts-about-sco-group.html

http://catb.org/esr/halloween/halloween10.html

http://catb.org/esr/halloween/halloween9.html

“Apple, which ended its third quarter with $1.2 billion in cash, will use the additional $150 million to invest in its core markets of education and creative content, Anderson said.”

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/592FE887-5CA1-4F30-BD62-407362B533B9.html

http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/06/in-a-private-light-diana-walkers-photos-of-steve-jobs/#10

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/05/apples-stock-rise-could-have-meant-5-billion-for-microsoft/

“Less than 12 hours before his big announcement, nobody here knows yet about the bombshell to come. In fact, Jobs is still negotiating it here at the Castle--on a cell phone. "Hi, Bill," you hear him say in the echo chamber of the old hall. Then his voice drops, and for nearly an hour he paces the stage, running through last-minute details with Gates. All the while, he leans over his computer, paces, lies down on the stage, paces, lurks in dark corners, paces and talks, paces and talks.

This is the fateful call for the boy titans of the personal-computer revolution, meant to settle the war. At one point, talking about Apple, Jobs says, "There are a lot of good things, happily--and a lot of screwed-up things." Then, to his crew, he yells, "Have we got satellite contact with the other side?" Assured this has been taken care of, he answers a question from Gates about what to wear on the morrow ("I'm just going to wear a white shirt," he assures him), and he finally ends the conversation with a heartfelt "Thank you for your support of this company. I think the world's a better place for it." And so that's how Apple and Microsoft, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, finally seal it--on a cell-phone call.

The deal is vintage Jobs. Amelio began the process of repairing relations between the two longtime rivals. But once he was out the door at Apple, Jobs contacted Gates to try to get talks started again. Gates dispatched his CFO, Gregory Maffei, who met Jobs at his home. Jobs suggested they go for a walk. Grabbing a couple of bottles of mineral water from the fridge, the two took off for a stroll around Palo Alto. Jobs was barefoot. "It was an interesting scene," Maffei recalls. "It was a pretty radical change for the relations between the two companies." The two walked for nearly an hour, through Palo Alto's green university area, as they pounded out the details of a potential deal. Jobs, Maffei says, was "expansive and charming. He said, 'These are things that we care about and that matter.' And that let us cut down the list. We had spent a lot of time with Amelio, and they had a lot of ideas that were nonstarters. Jobs had a lot more ability. He didn't ask for 23,000 terms. He looked at the whole picture, figured about what he needed. And we figured he had the credibility to bring the Apple people around and sell the deal."”

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/13/3239977/apple-and-microsoft-cross-license-agreement-includes-anti-cloning

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1292505/584.pdf

Huh? It's much more complicated then you want it to look like, I guess:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._Robins

Nope. Apple at least since 1977 referred to their Apple II as a ”personal computer“:

http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/MiscAds2/AisFor1.jpg

Check out the rest of their ads from the late 70s, for many more occurrences of the term, here:

http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/gallery1.html

In 1974 HP published this:

http://www.hpmuseum.org/journals/65a.htm

Dig a little bit more in history and you may find who used the term first:

http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml

*Stake*holders. As in people with an interest in donations having the best possible impact.

From TFA: “Donor nations were shocked last month, when UNICEF disclosed that it has been forced to pay artificially elevated prices for vaccines under an arrangement called the Advance Market Commitment, which was brokered by Gates Foundation-dominated GAVI alliance, to greatly increase drug company profits. Stakeholders also worry that industry reports of particular vaccine's effectiveness might be skewed by marketing goals.”

“The Apple infidels are committing suicide at the gates of ...” ... wait, let me check where they're incorporated ...
Wait, what? “Waterloo”? God, this is the good stuff ...

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Yup, the German Civil Code (BGB) now uses terms like “Sachmaengelhaftung”. Doubtful that it will help Otto Normalverbraucher*, though :)

*= Joe Sixpack

You may be surprised that a summary on /. is less than correct ... OK I'll leave the snark out.

Repeat after me: *There is NO “mandatory 2 years warranty” in the European Union*

What there is, is a “Maengelhaftung”, which is usually translated to “Liability for defects”. This is to be granted by the *seller* of a consumer good to a consumer. It is valid for 2 years from the date of purchase. Any defect showing in the first 6 months is assumed to be a manufacturing error, burden of proof of the opposite is with the seller, for the remaining 18 months the customer has to proof that the defect was already present at time of purchase.

As Apple sells its products in its own stores in europe (online included) it adheres to EU law, if Apple products are sold through a third party, the consumer has to deal with that third party.

Apple grants a voluntary 1 year warranty. This actually strengthens the purchasers position, because the above mentioned “burden of proof” now lies with Apple for the first *12* months. No consumer advocacy group in Europe has a problem with this.

But Apple additionally sells “Apple Care” contracts, which extend Apples warranty to three years. If you read closely this far, you'll notice that this is a much better protection for the consumer than the mandatory “Liability for defects” the EU imposes and absolutely doesn't touch this EU Directive. Regardless of any voluntary or sold warranty the EU Directive still stands.

Now, what the european consumer advocacy groups say is that Apple misleads the already (through the “Liability for defects” EU Directive) fine protected consumer into believing they wouldn't be protected after 12 months without buying Apple Care. If people are very stupid, and often they are, this could very well be the case.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31999L0044:EN:HTML

"... which Jobs suspended in 1995 ..."

Uhuh. Right ... when he was at Next ... That's not even in the linked articles. You made that up.

"... a good strategy for ensuring that Apple remains a hungry, growth-oriented entrepreneurial company might be for it to distribute much of its cash to shareholders."

LOL. Stay hungry, stay entrepreneurial, send me your money!

In fact Tim Cook didn't suggest any dividend, that's just wishful thinking. Why should Apple do that when the stock price is still rising? There are one or two chinese people they can some iStuff to ...