arstechnica.com — Apple has been found guilty of willfully infringing on a "predictive snooping" patent awarded to Opti Inc. in 2002. The company has been ordered to pay just over $19 million in compensation, despite its attempts to have the patent thrown out.
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anand999Apr 26, 2009
EDIT: Nevermind. I see Opti Inc. used to be real company with real products but now is just patent holding company.
Closed AccountApr 26, 2009
A recent botnet, suggests they go for option A!
Closed AccountApr 26, 2009
dugg for the irony of your icon :P
casebolt12Apr 27, 2009
not surprising. apple rarely makes anything original, like most large businesses. they purchase their ideas from smaller companies then co-opt them for their own profit. Not that thye are alone in this, MS does it all the time as well. meh. not real big news.
derektherock42Apr 27, 2009
@Zenham Apple pays more for lawyers than Microsoft? Maybe that's because Microsoft stole from them in 1984 and they don't want that to happen with iPhone. Or maybe because Microsoft's doing a lot of stealing and don't care about patents.<a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT6YO30GhmQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT6YO30GhmQ</a>
nayrproductionsMay 1, 2009
Unless you're the one who came up with the idea that NO ONE ELSE DID, and then since you are not a huge corporation, you don't have the money to go ahead with it, so you try to sell that idea to a big corporation that just f**king steals it from you without compensation. Yeah..that kind of behavior is perfectly acceptable.
phillMay 14, 2009
I'm sorry, I don't see anything about patents in my comment?