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Qualcomm, Intel give Apple source code in patent battle with Samsung

Thursday, April 5, 2012 · 6:36 pm · 27 Comments

“Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. have provided U.S. lawyers with source code that will help prove Apple Inc. isn’t infringing patents of Samsung Electronics Co., an Australian lawyer for the maker of iPhones said,” Joe Schneider reports for Bloomberg.

“Attorneys in the U.S. have inspected the code and Intel and Qualcomm have agreed to provide it to lawyers involved in a patent dispute in Australia, Andrew Fox, Apple’s lawyer, said at a hearing in Sydney today,” Schneider reports. “‘Further non-infringing arguments can be made from that’ disclosure of the source code, Fox said today.”

Schneider reports, “Samsung claims some of Apple’s iPhones and iPads infringe its patents over wireless transmissions… The case is: Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. NSD1243/2011. Federal Court of Australia (Sydney).”

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27 Comments

Jubei

Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 6:46 pm · Reply

Just keep up with your shenanigans Samsung. It’s going to bite you in the arse really hard soon. hehe
Phil mcmillan

Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 7:13 pm · Reply

Attorneys can read source code!?! They must be Moonlighting as developers!!
Ubermac

Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 7:31 pm · Reply

Well Microshit and Guurgle are teaching the world business leaders… being scum pays!
Ballmer's left nut

Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 7:39 pm · Reply

This is just fanboy nonsense. Not a single one of the lawsuits has resulted in a significant victory for Apple. Money down the drain that could have been used to provide better iOS apps for the iPad, for instance where’s the missing clock & calculator?

Apple should stop indulging in this legal nonsense and focus on its customer base for once instead of coasting on the success of the iPad. The market will sort out the winners & the losers.
- really
  
  Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 7:52 pm · Reply
  
  I partially agree considering Android’s fragmentation and other issues has been doing quite well in killing the platform without Apple’s legal department.
- 24january1984
  
  Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 8:40 pm · Reply
  
  AAPL is erecting a forward-going IP beachhead. The future is IP, and APPL has analyzed this.
  
  Essentially, intellectual squatters’ rights. Defend or abandon.
- el Tritoma
  
  Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 8:42 pm · Reply
  
  do you have any idea how long these types of legal cases take???
  - steve R
    
    Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 8:47 pm · Reply
    
    He’s Ballmer’s left nut… so the answer is no.
    - Jubei
      
      Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 10:34 pm · Reply
      
      His right nut does, but it went missing. Thus the problems come up for him.
- Rorschach
  
  Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 8:49 pm · Reply
  
  A village somewhere is missing its idiot, I know that much.
  - Steve Pearson
    
    Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 9:52 pm · Reply
    
    why do you always fall for his comments, arnold?
- WaterLily
  
  Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 9:17 pm · Reply
  
  Why is the clock and calculator missing? Two extremely simple and useful apps. That never happened in OSX… so why Apple had to yank those?
  
  Apple would not agree to re-new the licence with those apps. And saw what was the point free apps doing the same were already available. So they just gave up and saved themselves a free bucks in the end.
- Tflint
  
  Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 9:41 pm · Reply
  
  A clock and a calculator is all you need to be better than the iPad? If that’s all you’ve got, you’ve got nothing. And your claim that Apple has not won major lawsuits proves that you are a bald faced liar.
  - C3P0
    
    Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 9:50 pm · Reply
    
    BLN is not at all serious on this, dude. You got punked.
twilightmoon

Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 8:34 pm · Reply

I sure hope Apple does not listen to the people blathering about how they should give up and allow google to steal their work and ideas without consequences.

If they accomplish nothing other than forcing android manufacturers to defend their right to steal in every court around the world, forcing them to pay legal fees and run the risk of catastrophic defeat the whole time. Paying for this on shoestring razor thin profit margins while Apple pays their fees with a far smaller portion of their cash pile. That alone is worth something.

Those who place no value on creation, innovation, invention and moving the human race forward but instead value derivative copies, plagiarism, cheating, and ripping off others ideas without permission call Apple a bully. I say such people are beneath my threshold of contemp and unworthy of engaging in debate.
- el Tritoma
  
  Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 8:43 pm · Reply
  
  what you said!
  - WhoKnows
    
    Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 9:39 pm · Reply
    
    Ditto!
  - WaterLily
    
    Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 9:47 pm · Reply
    
    Larry took a Page from Jobs bio.
    
    Google now is stealing Apple words and thoughts now – too!
    “focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world”
    
    - kicked off a big clean-up
    - spreading ourselves too thin
    - closed or combined over 30 products
    - a visual refresh
    - more consistent
    
    Read Jobs biography and took it as the bible for CEOs to mange the company.
    
    http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=21166
Christophe

Friday, April 6, 2012 - 1:34 am · Reply

Everyone is cozy with AAPL
Richie

Friday, April 6, 2012 - 2:03 am · Reply

At $1000 per hour for a lawyers fee, Apple needs to sell 2 phones. Google: 285 phones, Samsung: 10 phones, Microsoft: well, they don’t sell enough phones to matter.
Let them fight it out in court. Apple can outspend them no problem.
- twilightmoon
  
  Friday, April 6, 2012 - 3:22 am · Reply
  
  Essentially Apple can win this without a major knock out punch just by forcing their copy cat derivative cloners to continually defend themselves. Make it very costly and risky to rip off Apples IP.
  
  Death by a thousand papercuts.
  - T.H. Roy
    
    Sunday, April 8, 2012 - 7:24 pm · Reply
    
    You hit the nail on the HEAD!! Make them spend
GM

Friday, April 6, 2012 - 2:50 am · Reply

MDN, why no stories on Flashback?
- silverhawk1
  
  Friday, April 6, 2012 - 8:34 am · Reply
  
  How about this posted by MDN at 10:28 am yesterday: http://macdailynews.com/2012/04/05/600000-macs-infected-with-flashback-trojan-274-in-cupertino-how-to-check-your-mac/
- twilightmoon
  
  Sunday, April 8, 2012 - 12:14 pm · Reply
  
  i would argue that stories about the forthcoming Mountain Lion which make it impossible to install trojan horse software on Macs by untreated developers will end this.
  
  If a trusted developer tried this, they would instantly become an untrusted developer and their status would get yanked.
  
  Granted we have to wait until this summer. But as Trojan horses is the only malware vector that has been successful in the eleven year history of OS X and its about to be permanantly shut down.
  
  So there’s your answer in a nutshell.
igroucho

Friday, April 6, 2012 - 6:51 am · Reply

A patent is a patent is a patent.
SJ: “And oh boy have we patented it?!”
When M$ once stole the MacOS GUI it was the bully of the neighbourhood and got away with it, now the table’s turned. As an AAPL holder I demand Apple to defend its patents and IP.
Derek Currie

Friday, April 6, 2012 - 1:59 pm · Reply

Oh dear Samsung. Did you buy enough Depends for your entire board of directors?

Samsung: Soooo screwed.