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Google VP: ‘The thermonuclear world is not the world we’re gonna live in’; ‘we didn’t believe rounded corners were patentable’ (with video)

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 · 3:52 pm · 49 Comments

David Lawee, vice president for corporate development, speaks with Bloomberg’s Jon Erlichman about Google’s response to the renewed rush to protect intellectual property.

In the video, Lawee says, “The thermonuclear world is not the world we’re gonna live in.” He also states, “We didn’t believe rounded corners were patentable.”

“He’s taking a small swipe at Apple, but he’s also talking about Google’s failings,” Jay Yarow reprots for The Business Insider. “He says Google wasn’t aggressive enough in patenting its intellectual property.”

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Google forfeited the choice of the type of world they’re going live in when they magically changed Android from being a BlackBerry knockoff into an iPhone knockoff:

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midwestmac

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:00 pm · Reply

He says straight-faced that Google didn’t patent things because they didn’t believe in patenting things.

Well, then, does Google have zero patents? Because which is, that you don’t believe in it and have none or that other people beat your to great ideas, patented them, and now you want to say that you should be able to just take things for free?

If the great unwashed masses buy this load of crap, my faith in humanity will be shaken.
- Only You
  
  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 9:59 pm · Reply
  
  +10
  
  Plus, all those who think or say or believe Apple patented round corners have no clue of what was patented.
  
  Plus, patented round corners aren’t necessary for others to become a shameless lavish copy cat.
- 0zzie9O3
  
  Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - 3:28 am · Reply
  
  He knows better. This is all about trying to influence the jury pool — the general public — for future trials. It’s common in big cases.
xil

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:01 pm · Reply

F Google!
- 2ndmate
  
  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 5:29 pm · Reply
  
  My old mother would have said, That man should drop dead.
  
  Back in the day my father would have said, Throttle the sonofabitch.
  
  I say, No need for violence, we’ll settle for three billion dollars in damages and a licensing agreement going forward. Just please STFU.
- Willy Wonka
  
  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 5:56 pm · Reply
  
  Yeah, Fcuk Google, gooood.
  
  Apple never fought about the round conners as a patentable design mark. Only that Samsung designed too closely with INTENTIONS to confuse customers.
- Dirt Devil Don
  
  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 6:18 pm · Reply
  
  David Lawee, is a prick and a dreamer.
  Hoping Google is, “over the hump in terms of the thermonuclear war”, not likely.
  
  No, David you are misleading the World as to why Apple Sued Samsung and won. It wasn’t over rounded corners.
  
  And, David, thank you to admit that Google lack of patents is a wake up call. Stealing IP with out backing up your software should be more then a wake up call… Google needs to be enforced to stripped out everything and START AGAIN.
  
  IN COMPARISON,
  
  The company, Alibaba in China has, Aliyun. A Linux based operating system quite different from Android and iOS. Apps are never downloaded but accessible through internet connectivity. 1 of 5 handsets already use Allyun today.
- Rohin
  
  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 7:07 pm · Reply
  
  My iPad is already defaulted to Bing… I hate Google now… Even MS seems a better option by comparison!
KarlV

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:01 pm · Reply

On one hand he is bashing IP, Apple’s IP. On the other he is saying Google isn’t aggressive enough when it comes to IP.

He is just talking his own book.
patranus

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:02 pm · Reply

How the hell do you become VP at Google and not know about trade dress. *Shrug*
- Walter White
  
  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 6:21 pm · Reply
  
  David Lawee needs to be accountable or be fired.
- Prasad
  
  Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - 3:29 am · Reply
  
  trade dress for Google…. ha ha ha.
  
  they dont have a face… they dont know what a brand means
Whatever

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:09 pm · Reply

I thought that was the one patent that they through out in the court case yet everyone is harping on it..
mrbezoar

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:10 pm · Reply

Didn’t Google specifically advise Samsung to make their phone look less like the iPhone? Isn’t it Google’s Android software that makes the icons and layout appear like the iPhone’s?
- David (lipshit) Lawee
  
  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 6:26 pm · Reply
  
  Consider Android the skeleton or framework for the OS.
  Companies like Samsung can skin or dress-up the look and feel as they please. For Google to even make that comment is strange when they give the software away for free.
  Open source Freeware – only asks to provide the CREATOR with permissions to make alterations or TO freely add openly for others to also use.
Chuklz

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:15 pm · Reply

Google would love to make everyone thing it ias about something as stupid as round corners. It goes so much farther than that but the brainless fandroids are falling for it.
Google is turning into an enormous trainwreck and it will only get worse.
And before the fandroids cry about this post, I do own an Android device.
- Sweet Jesus
  
  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 6:42 pm · Reply
  
  Great point… cheers.
Wow. Thick skinned Googlites

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:18 pm · Reply

Man the Google guys have THICK SKINS

first they STEAL than they go around giving interviews.

From court cases that Apple and others have won, from admissions by Google engineers like Andrew Munn , from analysts who knew both Jobs and Schmidt personally at the time and talked to them, it’s absolutely clear that they stole

Google is pissed like naughty rich frat kids that they got caught doing something illegal .

(seriously though Apple should better P.R.
Google samsung etc keep harping on Apple’s lawsuits as ’rounded corners’. In the recent big win the rounded corners was the only patent Apple did NOT win but won on other more complex ones. Apple needs to go on the PR offensive before it becomes part of the ‘legend’ that Apple’s IP is just rounded corners)
- Ace Freeiy
  
  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 6:39 pm · Reply
  
  Good points but the Media and others have flossed over the details, “with an over simplification the case”.
  
  Apple was not suing over “Rounded Corners”, it sued Samsung because Samsung “purposely imitated” OR “deliberately mimicked” the look and feel of Apples’ iOS. As close as possible to CONFUSE consumers.
  
  Googles rush to buy up patents should be seen as evidence that the company was up to no good and caught with its pants down.
  
  The VP, David Lawee, needs to believe this isn’t over and he has just made a very grave mistake speaking out this way. Corporate development has messed up.
Ubermac

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:20 pm · Reply

According to this retard, we are going to live in a word of crooks, that can steal, hack, lie, and rip off anything they want with impunity.

Google is the perfect example of corporate greed out of control.

Yet they are being worshipped by millions of dumb asses as the good guys.

And heir “free” services are still used by millions of DUMB ASSES!
- peterblood71
  
  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:59 pm · Reply
  
  Well said.
- First 2008, Then 2012
  
  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 5:03 pm · Reply
  
  According to this retard, we are going to live in a word of crooks, that can steal, hack, lie, and rip off anything they want with impunity.
  
  That’s what’s coming if Mutt Rawmoney gets elected.
  - peterblood71
    
    Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 5:06 pm · Reply
    
    Your political analysis and metaphor is beyond reproach or makes much sense either.
- Steve Boman
  
  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 6:46 pm · Reply
  
  Aliyun will rule in China. Android will fall to third place.
Death2Google

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:22 pm · Reply

If Google doesn’t believe in patents, why did they buy Motorola Mobile and other patents? So they can sue Apple, and attempt to barter a better over their stolen molible OS Android. But what can you expect from a company that bases their patent bid on pi.
steve

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:30 pm · Reply

I wish Apple would just copy and rework Google’s search engine and make it free to all advertisers. See how google likes that!
- full9
  
  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 5:06 pm · Reply
  
  +2
  
  I really do hope Apple comes up with a search engine and does a better job then Google.
x

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:36 pm · Reply

Google fucked up when their lying, cheating, snitching assdog Schmidt stole Apple’s IP after serving on their Board. He is a traitor, Quisling mother fucker.
- full9
  
  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 5:07 pm · Reply
  
  Can’t Schmidt be sued by Apple stockholders for breaking some kind of fiduciary obligation?
  - C3PO
    
    Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 6:44 pm · Reply
    
    Yes, but of course it needs, first to be provable with hard evidence, wait and see. This definitely isn’t over.
jer

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:36 pm · Reply

he thinks its just about round corners design, man , you guys stole a whole lot more inside the 4 corners as in iOS UIs.
- peterblood71
  
  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 5:03 pm · Reply
  
  I know I LOVE the disingenuousness of it all. They trivialize Apple’s trade dress as much as they can so by inference trying to make the whole of Apple’s complaints seem invalid. Nice try CEO a-hole-in-training!
radtech5000

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:48 pm · Reply

Isn’t it interesting how he tries to simplify the patent issue like that? Apple is not to blame for protecting its patents Google would do the exact same thing if the situation was reversed have no doubt about that.
digiq

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:50 pm · Reply

MacDailyNews Take: Remember, the only patents that radiate goodness, sunshine, and light are Google patents. All others are dark instruments that stifle “innovation.”
Now, Now...

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 4:59 pm · Reply

Well then Google, bring back the plastic buttons galore phones you were working on in 2006!
m159

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 5:02 pm · Reply

He’s jawboning the concept of protected visionary innovation into an idea of unfairness by using simple-minded misconceptions. His goal is to infect the jury pool for future court action.
Googleless

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 5:06 pm · Reply

“The thermonuclear world is not the world we’re gonna live in.” He also states, “We didn’t believe rounded corners were patentable.”

Neither did Samsung!

Google, get your checkbook out!
scott

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 5:13 pm · Reply

Typical Google garbage -”We should be able to take anything from anyone and make money on it without paying them for it.”
NHL

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 5:26 pm · Reply

David Lawee’s corporate motto:

“GOOGLE – We don’t believe in patents. And it shows!”