Apple sues HTC for infringing 20 Patents...

[truffle1234]

Originally Posted by p-slim

Why only HTC? Samsung moment and Motorola Droid have multi touch? Maybe theirs is coming. I'll be honest, the music player on the hd2 does resemble the itouch.

HTC is making almost all the hardware, including Motorola, so thats why apple is going after HTC.....

[i360]

Steve Jobs is a jerk who wants to c0ckblock mobile evolution.

[gTen]

Originally Posted by truffle1234

HTC is making almost all the hardware, including Motorola, so thats why apple is going after HTC.....

Guess cause of the android phone on at&t...

that said, to sue Motorola would be suicide because Motorola my guess has more phone patents then the kitchen sink.

Samsung makes the processor for the iPhone...suing the guy who makes your stuff isn't the best idea.


"Apple, where innovation means putting a Apple logo on it"

[Sprints700wx]

I Just saw this on MSN.com

highly doubt HTC will pull any of there phones.



i hope not lol

[gTen]

Originally Posted by Sprints700wx

I Just saw this on MSN.com

highly doubt HTC will pull any of there phones.



i hope not lol

No one ever pulls anything when dealing with big companies..they just stall it out for years after many legal battles and then settle.

[Jesse Buck]

If you think this is screwy, drug companies are discovering individual genes in the human genome and patenting them. This way if any drug company wants to develop a drug based on a pateneed gene they must pay royalties. People are patenting the rights to your genetics. Genes possessed by everyone are becoming owned by private individuals. You discover the cure for cancer based on science from one of your genes and you will be infringing on their patent. Capitalism is screwed up. Corporations have unlimited political donating ability now too so things are only gonna get worse.

[1454]

Originally Posted by Recursion

LOL!! You have a clue about what you're talking about. If it weren't for patents, nobody would be spending millions on R&D to develop new technologies. Providing the incentive to invent v. the public benefit of inventors publicly disclosing their know-how ... those are the two interests. Yeah, I guess the people who drafted Art I, Section 8 of the US Constitution were just dumb-asses ... you can re-write it all since you seem to understand this stuff so well ... and maybe you have a cooked ROM to share too...

That is not what I said. But you don't think Apple more than paid(and made millions) for the R&D they put into the Iphone in two years? You seem to be basing my intelligence on something very trivial. And for the record I don't fully believe in the constitution, because it has lead us down the road to where we are today. Have you ever read to Articles of Confederation? It makes the Constitution look like the Communist manifesto. No, I don't claim to know it all, never will. But you seem to think you do. And what the hell does understanding how to write code have to do with what I originally wrote? No, I can't, nor do I want too. I already have enough on my plate without learning how to write code. Please from now on spare all of us from your narcissistic attitude.

P.S. I guess you're smarter than two economists from Washington University in St. Louis?
It is a government created monopoly, therefore IT HINDERS innovation. No monopoly on earth drives innovation, nice try though. How's that public education working for you?

[1454]

Originally Posted by gTen

Patents should not be 2 years..a patent is someone's invention and it allows you to benefit from your invention.

when you invent a device, usually it is in proto-type form and it takes 2 years just to get it out in public if lucky. If your patent did nto last a large company could just wait 2 years and rather then sharing hte profit from your invention run you out of business with money alone.

That said patents should not be put on stupid things..example..if a touch screen was invented and you add it to a mobile device and patent it..thats just dumb...There has to be a stricter limitations on the patent and of course patents should not be sold.

I personally do not believe in patents. I have my reason's which we can discuss in some other forum, on another day. I post on Dawgrant.com if you want to discuss these things. I also post on others, I'm not trying to take this thread any more off topic than I already have. Sorry to the threadstarter for doing that to you.

[gTen]

Originally Posted by 1454

I personally do not believe in patents. I have my reason's which we can discuss in some other forum, on another day. I post on Dawgrant.com if you want to discuss these things. I also post on others, I'm not trying to take this thread any more off topic than I already have. Sorry to the threadstarter for doing that to you.

There is nothing to hijack on this thread..its a TP2 forum and it doesn't even belong here..so this thread itself is offtopic. That said, patents right now may hinder innovation, but in general they are needed and 2 years is not enough.

The problem lies in how the patent system is abused, this even goes for the law system in general. To put a patent for 2 years though is not the answer as it will completely kill innovation. Unless you have the money, there is no way you would be able to make your product hit the market.

As the saying goes "Too little of something is bad and too much of something is bad"

On other note, even the concept of democracy and capitalism if you think about it are 1000 year old systems. It just happens to be somewhat better then the other choices available atm.

[iknight8]

i am all in with the HTC!!!!
SCREW apple... they can just take ur CrapPhone and goto hell!!!