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“Last Tuesday, Apple and Minerva filed a joint motion to dismiss all claims and counterclaims, stipulating that each party would bear its own costs and attorneys’ fees. On Wednesday, Magistrate Judge Charles Everingham of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas promptly dismissed the infringement lawsuit with prejudice after receiving the alert,” Wauters reports. “Minerva Industries had earlier settled lawsuits with HP, Research In Motion, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Alltel, Boost Mobile, Qwest Wireless, Sprint Nextel and Verizon Communications. As I said earlier, there’s a patent troll at work here.
Wauters reports, “This morning, Apple was hit with another patent infringement suit, brought on by Israeli technology holding Emblaze, which alleges the Cupertino company has refused to license its media streaming technology at issue.”
The full article offers quick reviews of both cases here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
This crap goes unnoticed by the Federal Department of Hope and Change, I guess cause the chief exec is too busy answering whether or not he’s better looking than Brad Pit on The View.
I hate doing this, but…
TheloniousMac, could you shut up?
I’ve never seen any administration do anything about patent trolls either…
Anim-eat-me2, very rude.
Ron, I for one was lad Anim8me2 said something. thelonius’ comment was ridiculous.
(oh, and anyone can tell his name is “animate me too”)
*glad
Mokeyboy wouldn’t know anything about such matters. He was bought and paid for by the dems to be their puppet, because he has such a nice tanned face and is a smooth talker.
Or did he bring any other credentials to the job? … … … didn’t think so.
@ron,
Geritol.
Thanks. This is suppose to be a forum about Apple Inc. It’s bad enough with the trolls.
I get tire of people getting a patent for an idea (VAPORWARE) that will be evolved into some day so some lawyer can show up with a patent infringement suit.
I assume that there are patents on AI (artificial intelligence) by idiots that have know idea how to make it happen. Who is handing out these patents like it is toilet paper? If they can show you how it works they can patent it. If not, go away!!!
And the vortex of fear, hatred, and delusion continues to whirl. That vortex is the water in the toilet down which goes the USA, torn and divided by ignorance and division, even as the shadowy real powers delight in the rape if its citizens.
Divide and conquer. Set off the current “Liberal vs Conservative” conflict as a distraction, and plunder the population.
This is not a economic downturn we are in, it is a deliberate restructuring. Who benefits? Transnational plutocrats and kleptocrats.
So go ahead and, fear and hate Mr. Obama all you want,and see what good comes of it.
Here’s what i love…
Right-wingnut: Get the government out of our lives, they control too much…
Something they think is unfair happens
Right-wingnut: WHY DIDNT THE GOVT DO SOMETHING!!!???
And the dodecacore Mac Pro goes to Macromancer.
Who is Brad Pit?
ron, I’m not 100% certain, but I think that’s what Anim8me2 was saying. Without being QUITE so pointed about it … quite so rude.
There is a time and a place for comments like the opening salvo in this dispute. I don’t feel TMac got it right. Not even CLOSE! This was a randomly-placed troll with no redeeming value or linkage. That you don’t recognize this fact impugns your intelligence – or your values? – and the fact that you defend what is, essentially, indefensible, places you in the same court with the offender.
The laws, such as they are, are long standing, beyond the previous Democratic Administration or the FIRST Bush Administration, and cannot be held against the current (or previous) Administration. Alternate claims are totally bogus, as are the claimants.
@ubermac
Fuck off and die you racist son of a bitch! I would love to put a .45 hollow point through your thick skull!
@tz- you hit it right on the head. Left, right… all the same crap from the same toilet; signifying which pocket they have their hands in, while the stupid, ignorant, pathetic population takes sides and spews their worthless discord while doing nothing.
Turn off your TVs, you morons. Can’t you see how stupid you’ve become while we all suffer?
Umm with my apologies rolleyes, your post was very painful to read. I am going to repeat a line to you . . . Go ahead and keep harboring such angry violent thoughts as you expressed, and see what good it does. Most certainly it won’t do you any good.
@Jersey_Trader,
Embaze isn’t vaporware. It’s failedware. I worked with them in the late 90s. Even back then they were pitching their technology as being a breakthrough in many ways that I found questionable.
They actually had some products that were cool at the time, but they were Java based which resulted in a lot of processor overhead as well as not having a sufficient codec to produce quality video over the standard bandwidth available at the time.
Still, it was cool that it was cross-platform audio, video, and animation at a time when many tools were Windows only.
I really don’t see though how the concept itself for live streaming over HTTP could be patented. If a protocol is published like HTTP and someone takes advantage of the published specs, it doesn’t make sense that they could then patent that.
So… hey, how ’bout that stupid patent suit I just read about. That’s really something, no? And those new Macs? Pretty cool! Anybody gonna get one of them new Macs? Oops… shit. sorry. Wrong forum.
Umm Yeah! Patent trolls.
They are rather like remoras hanging around sharks trying to get a few scraps from the success of the big fish.
It ain’t liberal vs conservative, it’s billion dollar business with paid lobbyists sucking every cent from our pockets, as well as our government’s as well. They invest, not caring about people, but about numbers. They screw up, they threaten collapse. LET THEM FRIGGING FAIL. I can grow my own tomatoes. ANARCHY NEEDS TO COME BACK!
Rules are rules. If anybody infringes of apple’s patents, the fanboy trolls are up in arms, but if apple do it…it’s just a bunch of insignificant whiners…
You can’t have it both ways. Sure it’s not good, and it makes the bloodsucking parasites that are lawyers wealthier, but its the nature of the beast…enjoy!
Republicans rob from the Middle Class and give to the rich, Democrats rob from the Middle Class and give to the poor. Sucks to be Middle Class.
@MDN
There are several posts in this thread that should be censored per your policies. Most, of course, come from unregistered trolls. But theloniousMac is registered user and a habitual political commentator fomenting discord on unrelated topics. I suggest that you politely and firmly invite him/her to try frequenting websites from Limbaugh, Hannity, etc. at which he will be greeted with open arms.
This is a Mac site, not a theloniousMac site.