According to Reuters, the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) on Friday ruled that Apple Inc. did not violate any of five Nokia patents for electronic devices, including mobile phones, portable music players and computers.
Very brief article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It sure sucks to be Nokia: Basically pwned by Microsoft; desperately wedded to a too little, too late Microsoft mobile OS; and now your dreams of royalties are rapidly evaporating, too.
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so what about the kodak decision? that is supposed to happen today by now too.
“The ITC said it would review the initial patent ruling in its entirety. The complaint tries to determine whether Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry violated Kodak’s patents on technology to preview images.
The agency originally found Kodak’s patents were invalid and hadn’t been infringed. Looking forward, the Commission said Friday that one or more cease- and-desist orders may be issued upon further review of the case.”
So, the ITC will review the complaint, contrary to the recommendation in January.
It might be a good time for Apple to buy Kodak and kill two birds with one stone.
Unbelievable. So the U.S. ITC is just another cultist MAC lemming who falls for slick marketing just like the rest of the MAC sheeple out there.
what is a zune?
Does it really matter?
A Zune Tang is a pun off of Frank Zappa’s Poon Tang which means sex so this guy knows and bitterly acknowledges his choice of Redmond OS and MS technology is f**ked. He is a PCultist lemming of the worst variety who follows inept technology “leaders” like Steve Ballmer. Truly pathetic, his kind is thankfully a quickly vanishing breed. It’s becoming plain for all to see the Redmond Emperor has no clothes, nor a real phone, tablet, etc., etc., etc.. Choosy smart shoppers choose Apple.
Welcome to MDN. It’s cozy in here.
I hope you’re being ironic, because Zune Tang is.
If not, part of ZT’s humor lies in the clever trap he lays for those who are fool enough to fall for the joke.
While you’re at it, poon tang means pussy. Get it? Maybe not. 😉
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Poon+tang
you R funny Z.T.
Baaaaaa! Proud to be a Mac Sheeple!
Furthermore, expect all the mindless Mac sycophants in the legal system to uphold Apple’s patent claims against HTC, et al. And of course, the AppStore® name.
Hope so.
As long as Microsoft and it’s PC bootlickers gives up claims on such generic, ordinary, everyday words like windows, office, word, etc. then I’m good with Apple giving up Appstore.
I know of an old photo shop close to where I live, which is called Photoshop!
Congrats AAPL 🙂
The decision is another one of many as before that Apple is Not guilty of “said lawsuit “.
Nokia & Kodak are desperados 🙁
HTC be ready to pay AAPL 🙂
iBuy AAPL & U?
Nokia’s Great Dane – “Ruh Roh!”
I am assuming m159 is offering himself up as the straight man in a potential zune tang duopoly.
Actually, I shouldn’t read too much into this if I were you. The operant item in USITC is the US part. It is almost unheard of for the USITC to side with an non US company complainant. ie. The Canadian Softwood Lumber dispute that has been going on for as long as I’ve been alive. (and that’s a long time)
And in case you think I’m a troll, I have 4 Macs, 2 iPhones, and I just ordered my iPad today. In addition, I have several hundred shares of APPL. I love this company. they bought my Corvette for me. 🙂 Just wanted to straighten out a point.
zuneTang, you will need to get a new name soon because nobody will know what zune is… What is it btw?
Oooo the comments are full of trollie-goodness today. Why visit a mac fan-boy site if you don’t like the kool-aide.
Lots of newbies here who don’t know who Zune Tang is 🙂
I think it was Ted Nugent who first coined poontang, not Zappa…
Not unless the Nuge is a lot older than he looks. The term dates back at least to 1910, most likely around New Orleans.