Apple granted injunction halting EU Galaxy phone sales

[Recursion]

They rejected the design idea?! Holy derp the judge is blind.

In terms of the homescreens, there's only so many ways you can list App icons... but in terms of the tablet Apple photoshopped the evidence. They changed the entire shape of the Galaxy Tab and then added a silver border around it to make it look like an iPad. It was falsified evidence and was thrown out...

Just for that, every patent case Apple has should be thrown out immediately pending review.

[Chippiewill]

In terms of the homescreens, there's only so many ways you can list App icons...

Not to mention that fact that my Nokia Phone from ten years ago lists it the same way.

[GommeInc]

In terms of the homescreens, there's only so many ways you can list App icons... but in terms of the tablet Apple photoshopped the evidence. They changed the entire shape of the Galaxy Tab and then added a silver border around it to make it look like an iPad. It was falsified evidence and was thrown out...

Just for that, every patent case Apple has should be thrown out immediately pending review.

It's incredibly petty. Why is it, that the computer industry feel the need to cause an unnecessary amount of legal cases, most of which are pointless and based on tedium? Patents like this should not exist, patents should only be made to protect a certain way of doing something - not an entire concept like touch-screen technology or an App Tray which only really comes in one design and use. Steve Jobs legacy seems to be tedious court cases based on meaningless and restrictive patents.

Whoever made this illegitimate evidence needs to be chucked off a bridge and on to a spike in my opinion :/

[Chippiewill]

Most patent lawsuits nowadays are just counter lawsuits to other lawsuits or are pre-emptive lawsuits so that they can sue a company before they get some patents which will allow them to return a lawsuit back.

[GommeInc]

Most patent lawsuits nowadays are just counter lawsuits to other lawsuits or are pre-emptive lawsuits so that they can sue a company before they get some patents which will allow them to return a lawsuit back.

Which should not exist. They're unnecessary and a waste of time. The courts should just tell Apple to shut the hell up and charge them a few billion for wasting peoples time. Someone should go through the patent system removing pointless patents that were obviously created to cause unnecessary fuss or are patents trying to protect an entire concept when an entire concept should never be patented because it hinders the progress and evolution of technology (FULL STOP). A patent used to be about protecting a specific design or way of doing something (the helicopter design by a philosopher and inventer was one design based on a concept, for example). Apple are the main problem here, they churn out pointless patents because someone has got themselves addicted to the patent system. Not that it's their fault, part of the blame goes to the twit who allowed for such patents to be created and protected in the first place.

EDIT: I was going to say the few Billion Euros/Dollars/Pounds could bail out the Eurozone, but on second thoughts that money would of gone on another half-baked solution to a non-existent problem or some corrupt politician - so that was removed

[Ardemax]

I'm pretty sure Apple are like up with the fairies half the time... well, their marketing would suggest this.

I'm actually quite surprised they haven't sued major supermarkets for selling a particular kind of fruit.

[Stephen]

Sources:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14652482
http://www.neowin.net/news/apple-gra...xy-phone-sales

Well that's just typical of you know who.

Edited by Infectious (Forum Super Moderator): Please do not make pointless posts!