Practical Technology

u can’t read tech websites these days without seeing news of yet another patent, copyright, design, or trademark lawsuit. You might be distracted by current events, but even long out of date programs such as Microsoft Office 95 are still being fought over in courts today. You don’t need to be a Google or Motorola [...]

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Take a long look at the two versions of Samung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 on the right. One, says a German court, violated Apple’s iPad intellectual property (IP) design and thus couldn’t be sold in the European Union (EU). The other one is fine and dandy and can be sold. Can you tell the critical IP [...]

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I wonder if Apple is beginning to regret its world-wide war on Android and Samsung? After all, Apple’s just been hit in the chops by a German court injunction that blocks the sale of all iPhones and iPads in the European Union. In yet another chapter in the mobile patent wars, this time around Android-power [...]

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I’ve been poking fun at Apple’s intellectual property design claims for some time now. Then, I got a look at Apple’s “suggestions” on how Samsung could avoid Apple’s legal wrath and I realized I hadn’t even scratched the surface of how absurd Apple’s claims are. In a recently revealed Apple court document (PDF) we see [...]

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Some fools still have this delusion that software patent and product design wars have something to do with some mythological real value of intellectual property (IP). While there are indeed cases involving a better mouse-trap, most such cases are about nothing but extorting cash from people who create real products, or, in the case of [...]

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