Comments on: USPTO tentatively – and likely temporarily – declares Apple’s ‘pinch-to-zoom’ patent invalid

By: dbarrycoyle

dbarrycoyle — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:05:58 +0000

Picked up my friend’s new massive Galaxy with the new “Jellybean”, he was very proud to say. It was fast, BIG, bright, clear icons on what’s what, easy to use….. And EXACTLY a copy of the iPhone. Just massive. How can Apple NOT be suing these guys into submission????? All the hand gestures, (which Apple was the obvious first to ever do these) are all the same. The good news, when Apple has competition, they always do great things. When the competition is weak or non-existent, they can get lazy like everyone else will. But the competition is there. Galaxy is a good phone. There’s nothing that the iPHone does that the Galaxy can’t, as far as I can tell. So they need to keep working to stand out.
Oh, one more thing: I’m sold on Apple maps now. Took a while, but I’m used to the interface, the menu flow, etc… the new Google maps is horrible, in my view. I tried it expecting to move back, but after a day or 2, I dumped it for the Apple maps.

By: skylark

skylark — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:44:49 +0000

I agree 100%.

By: spyintheskyuk

spyintheskyuk — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:43:09 +0000

Sadly I expect that ignorantly to include the BBC tech boys who are about as objective as josef goebbels and will no doubt pursue their anti Apple campaign with gusto.

By: 3l3c7ro

3l3c7ro — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:42:20 +0000

This is standard operating procedure. The USPTO hire many lawyers and there is a huge backlog of applications to clear. One of the ways that they ‘clear’ the backlog is to turn down almost every application. This has the effect of shaking out the trivial ones and leaves the ones that are backed by substantial wallets. The government has legislated that the backlog be cleared and are paying part of the bill but the lawyers are creating even more ‘work’ for themselves and are busy building empires with more bureaucracy and steps to apply for a patent. I have been through it and it is costly.

By: David

David — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:25:55 +0000

Samdung knows it’s way around the Crap Court

By: krquet

krquet — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:11:07 +0000

A few days ago I had wondered here that maybe the reason why the AAPL has suffered so much recently was because some insider info the big funds are privy to that we are not.

I had predicted that for that to be correct Apple should get some bad news coming its way. Well, first judge Koh and now this. Maybe there’s more to come still.