[kictanet] Apple Patent Victory Could Have Broad Implications for Mobile Industry

Sun Aug 26 10:31:53 EAT 2012

i really admire the intellectual property institution, but to some point i find it not to protect the ideas in development for people rather a hinderance to competion in that there is not much innovation due to this...

--- On Sun, 8/26/12, meshack emakunat <memakunat at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: meshack emakunat <memakunat at yahoo.com>
Subject: [kictanet] Apple Patent Victory Could Have Broad Implications for Mobile Industry
To: memakunat at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Sunday, August 26, 2012, 12:20 AM

--- On Fri, 8/24/12, NYTimes.com News Alert <nytdirect at nytimes.com> wrote:

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Subject: Latest: Apple Patent Victory Could Have Broad Implications for Mobile Industry
To: memakunat at yahoo.com
Date: Friday, August 24, 2012, 5:49 PM

Breaking News Alert
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Friday, August 24, 2012 -- 8:33 PM EDT
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Apple Patent Victory Could Have Broad Implications for Mobile Industry

In a big legal victory for Apple that could have broad implications for the mobile business, a jury awarded the company more than $1 billion in damages Friday after finding that Samsung infringed on a series of Apple patents on smartphones and tablet computers.

The verdict could have a major impact on Android, the Google operating system used by Samsung and many other companies in their devices. Apple’s suit against Samsung, the world’s largest maker of smartphones, has partly been viewed as a proxy war against Google, which Apple executives have derided as a copycat.

A nine-person jury sided with Apple on most of its allegations, including patent claims involving the “bounce back” effect when a user scrolls to the end of a list, the pinch-to-zoom gesture that users make when they want to magnify an image, and the physical design of the iPhone.

The jury added some sting by finding in favor of Apple across the board in a countersuit by Samsung.

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