Apple Applies For Automatic Shutdown and Piracy-Fighting Patents
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| The US Patent Office has revealed a number of recent patent filings by Apple.
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| Apple has thus-far resisted industry trends towards activation of software,
| and currently only uses such methods in some of its most costly professional
| software. While it is clear that Apple has been working on methods to combat
| piracy, it remains to be seen how far Apple will employ the methods in its
| software. Readers are reminded that only a portion of the applications filed
| end up making it to shipping products.
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http://www.macrumors.com/2007/12/20/apple-applies-for-autmoatic-shutdown-and-piracy-fighting-patents/
http://tinyurl.com/3cfbbp
McAfee to pay $13.8 million to settle backdating lawsuits
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| McAfee has taken two major steps toward closing the stock-option backdating
| scandal that has plagued the company for the past two years.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071222/tc_infoworld/94209
Apple's Steve Jobs did this two, but managed to escape because he's rich.
Related:
Report: Steve Jobs gets SEC subpoena
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| Bloomberg reports "people familiar with the matter" saying the subpoena is
| not part of an investigation, rather a demand for Jobs' deposition in the
| existing Heinen prosecution.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/20/jobs_apple_backdating_subpoena/
Options troubles aren't over for Apple
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| But one of the accused -- former Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson --
| pointed a finger at his former boss, Steve Jobs, raising new accusations
| that experts say could land Jobs in some legal hot water if true.
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| Gene Munster, a financial analyst at Piper Jaffray, said Anderson's
| accusations will fuel investors' worries over Jobs and his critical role in
| Apple's continued success.
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| "It gives the appearance that, 'I had a partner in crime and it was Steve
| Jobs,'" Munster said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_on_hi_te/apple_stock_options
Microsoft's past stock options practice poses questions
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| Microsoft in 1999 announced that it would end a policy of awarding
| options at monthly lows and said it would take a $217 million charge,
| though many details of that discontinued practice haven't been widely
| known, The Wall Street Journal said Friday.
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| Those details raise questions about how Microsoft began the practice,
| what prompted the company to end it and whether the way the options
| were dated--at 30-day lows the month after they were
| granted--influenced other companies, it said.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6084617.html
Apple seeks patent for compactable disc adaptor
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| That seems pretty obvious to me. Doesn't prior art in a variety of industries
| (including flat-pack furniture and telescopes) have these concepts covered?
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| I have no fundamental problem with the idea of patents, but to my mind the
| degree of innovation behind this application is too trivial to deserve
| protection.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15474/1054/
Steve Jobs "nicked my battery design"
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| He apparently contacted Apple with a request for the California firm to
| change its product or else to license the patent.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41630
Microsoft infringing on one of Apple Patents?
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| Keep in mind I am not a patent researcher, and I am sure Apple is not
| going to sue Microsoft for abusing one of their patents, but it does
| at least look like Microsoft is abusing this patent.
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http://www.noheat.com/2007/06/22/microsoft-infringing-on-one-of-apple-patents/
The Apple vs. Microsoft GUI Lawsuit
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| Without warning, Apple filed suit against Microsoft in federal court on
| March 17, 1988 for violating Apple's copyrights on the "visual displays"
| of the Macintosh. (Apple also filed suit against HP for its NewWave
| environment that ran on top of Windows 2.0.)
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| Apple's suit included 189 contested visual displays that Apple
| believed violated its copyright.
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| Microsoft countersued, but it failed to stem the bad publicity.
| Windows' development community was terrified that any court ordered
| changes to the software would render their products incompatiblea
| nd make Windows undesirable to consumers. Borland's CEO said itw
| as like "waking up and finding out that your partner might have
| AIDS."
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http://lowendmac.com/orchard/06/0825.html
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