March 2nd, 2010, 06:27 PM
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Apple invented nothing...
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Originally Posted by pkopalek
The problem is, that it's EXACTLY about patenting ideas.
I hate to be behind Apple, but they missed this boat when they let Windows go 20+ years ago, without suing.
They've invented virtually the ENTIRETY of the ideas relating to how we interface with computers and our Android phones.
That being said, those are VERY broad ideas to patent. The problem isn't that they don't deserve a patent, some of them, for being so broad, but that the patent office DID issue them legal patents. That's the problem.
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Apple and Microsoft both stole their original software from Xerox...they've been stealing off each other since - hence there being no successful lawsuit. Apple never owned it so there was never any grounds for it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microsoft_Corporation
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Last edited by danielevans83; March 2nd, 2010 at 06:30 PM.
Reason: Added URL
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