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Apple Sued For Patent Infringement
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| Apple has been named in a patent infringement lawsuit by EMG Technology who
| alleges that the iPhone infringes on a patent that enables the device to
| browse the Web.
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| [...]
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| An attorney for EMG, Stanley Gibson said U.S. Patent No. 7,441,196 is one of
| five patents for navigating the Internet on mobile devices and Internet
| Protocol Television. (IPTV)
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/11/24/apple-sued-for-patent-infringement
Apple Sued Over iPhone Browser
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| EMG Technology is a company that holds the patents of Elliot Gottfurcht, the
| real estate developer, as well as Marlo Longstreet and Grant Gottfurcht. The
| company claims that the iPhone infringes on patent 7, 441, 196- a patent that
| was approved only last month, after a filing process that began on March 13,
| 2006.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/154491/apple_iphone_lawsuit.html?tk=rss_news
Apple Slapped With Patent Suit Over iPhone’s Browser
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| The name of the patent is “Apparatus and method of manipulating a region on a
| wireless device screen for viewing, zooming and scrolling internet content.”
| It was filed on March 13, 2006.
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http://www.ajax-blog.com/apple-slapped-with-patent-suit-over-iphone%E2%80%99s-browser.html
More 'fun' with 'Intellectual' Monopolies:
Patent disputes about chip technologies
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| Although there are few official press releases available, it seems that
| numerous well-known chip manufacturers are arguing about patents apparently
| involving tungsten metallisation processes.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/119403
Recent:
Apple's Success Brings More Patent Lawsuits
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| During the first four months of 2008, Apple was named as a defendant in eight
| patent infringement lawsuits, up from five during the same period in 2007.
| Only one such lawsuit was filed during the first four months of 2006, on
| behalf of Burst.com. Apple settled that lawsuit for $10 million last
| November. The first four months of 2005 also brought just one patent lawsuit
| against Apple. In 2004, three patent lawsuits were filed against Apple from
| January through the end of April.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/mac/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207402599
Related:
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| Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't that patch illegal because Apple
| has an patent on this effect? Confused At least its illegal in the US,
| not in Europe (afaik we don't have software patents yet).
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http://forum.compiz.org/viewtopic.php?p=7365#7365
Apple sued over iPhone caller ID
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| Figa's patent, describes an "an automatic incoming telephone call number
| display system for detecting an incoming call and identifying the party
| associated with the incoming call number".
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| Like the iPhone, the system "includes a directory of telephone numbers and
| parties associated with those numbers," and it's equipped with "circuitry
| detects the origin telephone number of an incoming telephone call and
| compares that number with numbers in the directory for identifying the
| calling party."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/01/apple_sued_over_iphone_callerid/
Apple sued for visual voicemail patent infringement - again
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| It is the second time Klausner has had a bash at the suit, after it updated
| its original complaint from December. The outfit claims both Apple and AT&T
| infringed its patent of a “Telephone Answering Device Linking Displayed Data
| with Recorded Audio Message”.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/21/apple-sued-patent-infringement
KDE king Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the desktop
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| Apple doesn't get the open source development model and has a very control
| oriented corporate culture and that doesn't mesh very well with an open,
| collaborative environment. Apple is getting better at it, or at least parts
| of Apple are getting it. I hope to look at it in five years and say this was
| growing pains for Apple to get where it is.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;885892575;pp;1
Apple failing to understand open source
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| There is a cost for not being a good Open Source citizen and that
| cost is loss of goodwill in the community. That loss is more
| expensive in the long run than Apple realizes.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/03/apple_failing_to_understand_op.html
Mozilla exec calls Apple's Safari plan 'duopolistic'
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| In the speech predicting how Apple would expand its market share, Jobs showed
| a slide with Safari dominating almost a quarter of the market--a market
| shared only with a single other browser, Internet Explorer.
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| Lilly says he doesn't believe that this was an omission or simplification,
| but instead an indication that Jobs is hoping to steal people who use Firefox
| and other smaller browsers in order to run a "duopoly" with Redmond.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6191562.html
Researcher Blasts Apple for 'Negligent' Patching
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| A researcher who went public last month with the first iPhone vulnerability
| says Apple's updating of the open-source components it uses in Mac OS X is
| inexcusable and negligent.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135589-c,macos/article.html
Wozniak hates Open Sauce
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| In an interview with eWeek, Woz said that there are always people who want
| things to be free and the open-source movement starts with those sort of
| people.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/09/25/wozniak-hates-open-sauce
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