“Apple is alleging that archival Google’s Android mobile operating system began taking shape almost two decades ago while Google senior vice president and Android chief Andy Rubin was employed within the Apple ranks, a charge that could have significant legal implications for future Apple suits against Google and could also impact Google’s proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of device maker Motorola Mobility,” Jason Ankeny writes for FiereceMobileContent.
Ankeny writes, “On his FOSS Patents blog, intellectual property activist Florian Mueller states that because Rubin never worked at HTC, Apple’s charges should not significantly impact the ITC’s current investigation into the handset maker. ‘Should Apple at some point sue Google directly over this patent, this background could, however, have serious ramifications,’ Mueller writes. ‘Google (or a Google subsidiary like [Motorola Mobility]) would almost certainly be found to infringe the relevant patent intentionally, and willful infringement would greatly increase Apple’s chances of obtaining an injunction as well as triple damages.'”
Read more: Apple to ITC: Google’s Android infringes on our API patent – FierceMobileContent http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/apple-itc-googles-android-infringes-our-api-patent/2011-09-06?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss#ixzz1XD4GpDPq
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Let’s get ready to rumbllllllllllllllllllle!
Etc, etc.
you stole our shit and you made shit out of it.
OR, You stole our soup and proceeded to make shit out of it;-}
“archival google” is this a reference to google ripping off publishing, or a typo?
Busted. Goople you suck!
You are not Googe’s customer, you are the product that Google sells to advertisers.
Did they get your permission to do that?
Google = The Borg…. You will be assimilated!
Stop them while you can.
“…that archival Google’s Android… ”
yep it is good that Apple’s arch-rival is archival
The chickens have come home to roost…..
HMS Titanic
HMS Lusitania
ENRON
Android
Scratch “Android” substitute “Google” now that would make a nice landscape.
Android Slaves are the new chattel in The new Cyber World, just as many men bought an sold Negro Slaves years ago.
Google is by far the largest modern Slave Owner in the World.
Most ‘Android Slaves’ are happy with that arrangement and fight for Massa as ‘fanDroids”.
Apple fights to set them free and they don’t want it.
Microsoft get a break.
The Lusitania doesn’t belong in that grouping. It was the victim of a U-Boat attack, not a monument to hubris, greed or intellectual property theft
Bismarck seems like a fitting substitute.
So it’s not evil to steal?
Andy Rubin; Android wunderkind, Google Achille’s heel.
God is whatch you going wrong and think of UFO come down take your mind and soul!
You guys are completely retarded.
The company you verbally fellate all day is completely and utterly evil.
A greedy monstrous company that does no good in the world what so ever.
Fuck you all.
Yes, your description of Google is spot-on!
Someone mention Microsoft?
Google = TheBorg
Apple = TheBorg
Software patents harm developers.