Apple is granted the mother of all patents
Posted: 21 Jul 2012, 10:03
Apple has been granted the mother of all smartphone patents. In the very transparent smartphone patent war they have now gotten patent no 8,223,134
this is a patent for "Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying electronic lists and documents"
So if it is a smartphone- Apple owns it.
This is good to have after Apple has suffered an embarrassing loss in the UK against Samsung regarding the HW design of the tablets.
There they are required to publish the humiliating information on their websites that Samsung never has copied their design!
You cannot lose more clearly than that!
But now they have the Atom Bomb of all smartphone patents. So now they can attack from another angle:
We get it: Apple should have no competition in the Smartphone market
That is basically what they thought about the tablet market too...
More here
this is a patent for "Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying electronic lists and documents"
So if it is a smartphone- Apple owns it.
This is good to have after Apple has suffered an embarrassing loss in the UK against Samsung regarding the HW design of the tablets.
There they are required to publish the humiliating information on their websites that Samsung never has copied their design!
You cannot lose more clearly than that!
But now they have the Atom Bomb of all smartphone patents. So now they can attack from another angle:
"In 2007, Samsung, HTC, Google (GOOG) and all others in the industry didn't have a smartphone with the likes of Apple's iPhone features. They didn't have the solutions that Apple eloquently brought to market to make a smartphone truly smart. Apple carefully and meticulously crafted a full end-to-end smartphone solution. So when the copycats and their followers whine in public and on blogs that Apple should learn to compete instead of initiate litigation – I bowl over with laughter."
We get it: Apple should have no competition in the Smartphone market
That is basically what they thought about the tablet market too...
More here