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- Zippo, on 12/04/2008, -3/+35***** patent trolls. If you're not going to actually build the thing yourself, shut the ***** up.
Patent laws really need to be overhauled. Have them expire within a couple years if you don't make an actual product and prevent vague ideas from being patented. - Dinsdale77, on 12/04/2008, -2/+19If they had given Colbert an iPhone in the beginning, this could have been avoided. Two words, Colbert bump.
- MatthewDuke, on 12/04/2008, -1/+5That's why there are huge maintenance fees at 4, 8, and 12 years from the patent issue date. They prevent people from holding onto patents if they aren't using them enough to justify the fees. Once you fail to pay the fee, the invention is in the public domain and freely available.
- esni, on 12/04/2008, -4/+7Yes!
- kirk06, on 12/04/2008, -1/+4Yet you also contribute nothing to the discussion, other than petty name-calling and jabs at users interested in popular current-event topics. Bravo, sir. Way to make yourself look like the "buttknob" (to use your terminology).
The patent system is in serious need of an overhaul. Hopefully it won't take many more of these cases to make those in Washington realize this. - x713, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3Don't help the pot call the kettle black...
- compgeek, on 12/04/2008, -2/+4This little EMG start up is going to get flattened in court by Apple's lawyers and for once I say good for Apple for defending it's turf against what is clearly a cash grab ***** lawsuit
- NGYoshi, on 12/04/2008, -3/+5That's an excellent idea. I just don't get the mentality of thinking something up and then doing nothing with the idea.
- Zuwxiv, on 12/04/2008, -2/+4As someone who has worked in a patent law firm (and as someone whose father is an intellectual property lawyer, specifically patents), you can understand where I'm coming from when I say ***** Yes.
- MatthewDuke, on 12/04/2008, -1/+3The administrative cost of obtaining a copyright is $0. Should we make it -$10?
- Balanced, on 12/04/2008, -2/+4In this case, isn't Apple also presumably in the free and clear because the iPhone runs a real grown-up web browser and not a proxying browser like many mobile phones?
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -2/+3Yes...I am sure Apple's lawyers need the help of some blog writer at techcrunch. They were probably advising Steve Jobs to shut down all operations at Apple and hand the keys over to EGM until they read this.
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -2/+3Not like apple has EVER, ever done this.. eh?
- kingsquab, on 12/04/2008, -0/+1Stay thirsty, my friends.
- ElectroBot, on 12/04/2008, -0/+1"Captain" Awesome from NBC's Chuck (http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0034723/)
- slcseifist, on 12/05/2008, -0/+1God damn you ***** diggers. 11 out of the top 13 tech stories have the word Apple in it. There are other things going on in the tech world besides mp3s and dropped cell phone calls.
- nerd05, on 12/04/2008, -2/+3For the love of all that is good in this world still, can you please learn the freaking difference between "it's" and "its?"
- locojones, on 12/04/2008, -0/+1 Clearly, if anyone had done any homework whatsoever, they would know that the date on that IBM patent is insufficient to dismiss the lawsuit because 35 USC 102(b) mandates that the prior art must have been described in a patented publication more than 1 year prior to the date of the patent application filing of the patent being attacked. Here, the difference is less than 12 months, so the argument holds zero water. Case moves forward.
How crap like this makes it to the front page, I'll never know. - jefree, on 12/04/2008, -2/+3Patent and Copyright are out of control. I believe it is slowing progress with legal threat and administrative cost rather than promoting progress and protecting inventors.
- Godlike, on 12/04/2008, -1/+1I have said it many times: to hold a patent as exclusive in a legal sense you should have to show intent for production. If this is capitalism why doesn't our patent system work within that? Why should our intellectual rights system be at odds with the means of production and distribution?
- stuffradio, on 12/04/2008, -1/+1Terrorist fist jab!
- talonh, on 12/04/2008, -1/+1Duke’s Been Drinkin’ Again
- MatthewDuke, on 12/04/2008, -1/+1Why did you quote 'patents'?
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -2/+1and that makes you qualified to make this determination?
I mean, OTHER than being a Digg know it all. - MatthewDuke, on 12/04/2008, -1/+1Also, the sky is falling.
- rustylindquist, on 12/04/2008, -2/+1Sometimes it takes an outsider to see clearly what the insiders are blind to. Patent laws/process are terrible.
- MatthewDuke, on 12/04/2008, -3/+2"clearly a cash grab ***** lawsuit" - what are you basing your opinion on...other diggers saying it's a ***** lawsuit? If that's true, this won't survive a summary judgment motion.
- MatthewDuke, on 12/04/2008, -5/+4That's what the little green "thumbs up" is for, dumb dumb.
- Goochman, on 12/04/2008, -3/+2And we wonder why the US economy is melting down - we're moving from actually producing stuf for income to just sueing companies for money over pointless patents.............
EMG should actually make something with its 'patents' before it begins defending against them - Sonixunite, on 12/04/2008, -1/+0See you later, dude.
- MrAwesomeMan, on 12/04/2008, -2/+0Has anyone ever patented being awesome?
- MatthewDuke, on 12/04/2008, -3/+1Your credentials are impeccable!
- MatthewDuke, on 12/04/2008, -5/+2Ok, how about this: Instead of a knee jerk reaction, I'm going to read the patent and then read the court documents and then come up with an opinion based on my years of patent prosecution and litigation experience. I'll be back in a few weeks...
- esni, on 12/04/2008, -8/+4For once I'm on Apple's side in something.
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -8/+3You should NEVER be on Apple's side.
Buried. - MatthewDuke, on 12/04/2008, -9/+3I like how all you buttknobs have opinions on whether EMG's patent is valid, and whether the claims read on Apple's products - yet have absolutely no experience with law and specifically IP law. Stick to talk about AJAX and loving Obama, you are just embarrassing yourselves in this realm.
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -13/+4For once, and I mean once, apple is in the right.
That being said, I still hope they lose because Apple deserves a good hard buttraeping.
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