“Today the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida granted an Apple motion to strike Motorola Mobility’s supplemental infringement contentions, i.e., accusations of infringement that Motorola brought into the game at a rather late stage,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents.
“Motorola filed those contentions on October 28, 2011. The document didn’t enter the public record, but Apple filed a motion to strike, Motorola replied to it (too late), and the court issued an order,” Mueller reports. “From the pleadings, I’ve gathered that Motorola’s supplemental contentions not only raised new issues with respect to certain originally-accused products but also brought three new products into that lawsuit: the iPhone 4S, the iCloud, and iTunes.”
Mueller reports, “We will see what the outcome of this litigation is. The trial is scheduled for August 2012. There are ways in which rulings concerning the infringement of a given patent with a given kind of technology can also affect more recent products.”
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this of course brings to the BROADER issue of iPhone vs Android,
which came first iPhone (iOS) or Android?
of course android! I have irrefutable PROOF!
all this nonsense about (the Great) Schmidt being a mole, stealing secrets, phaaff! (that Google phone prototype before iPhone that looked like a Blackberry with lots of buttons was just a smoke screen)
Android stared WAY before (the Great) Schmidt’s time at Apple, way before iPhone was even a flicker in Apple’s plans.
“Give us the proof then AF you moron” I can hear you shouting.
Here it is:
My android supporting cohorts and I in the Far-sighted Action Team to Stop Apple Power (FATSAP) have in our possession undeniable evidence:
1) we have a PHOTO of Larry Page as a toddler playing with a R2D2 toy … holding it up to his cute little ear (ta-da!)… like a PHONE!!
2) witnesses too have claimed that Schmidt as a kid while playing with a purely mechanical Fisher Price Magna-Doodle for the first time asked “how do I PLUG it IN to the Power?”
This shows that Android’s genesis was way before iOS : (1) that android was always in their minds, (2) that they were into Touch Screens. From the above it is easy to conclude that from those times forward Page and Schmidt planned their entire lives to produce android.
I rest my case for now but more evidence will be coming.
Hi Zun™Y
Wow, all that thought and planning from childhood to date. Steve Jobs walks in with an idea, then creates the iPhone in short order and destroys Android in sells. Um, no one manufacture of a single phone can even come close. Many models, different OS versions, BOGOF sales, and cheap prices are the the end result for Android. Yup, the smoke screen Smitty put out really clouded his vision and clarity of thought.
Again, thanks Steve Jobs for showing the rest of the cell phone industry and telcos how it should be done! Smitty, back to idle dreaming please.
So in summary:
it’s not copying if your product looks and functions just like your competitor’s a year after as long as it’s based on your prototype from a year before that looks nothing like it.
What logic! And they say Apple fanboy’s are tools. : /
ROFLMAO