High Court reinstates Oz Galaxy 10.1 ban

Apple are looking like idiots because of this

I am hating Apple more and more with these stupid law suits - the only similarity between the 2 devices is that they're flat with a screen taking up most of the surface, apart from that the similarities are virtually none...

the iPad has a 4x3 screen, the Tab has 16x9

the iPad has 1 button, the Tab has 4

the iPad has 1 slot, the Tab has 3

if Apple wants to push that other tablets look too much like the iPad, then companies that were producing tablets before the iPad release should push to stop the sales of the iPad since they "copied" their design...

Apple are also complaining that Android "looks too much like iOS", well, it does until you actually USE the device - Android has so many features that iOS doesn't that the similarity stops at "you touch icons and the apps go full screen"

I REALLY want Nokia and Sony Ericsson to push against Apple on the iPhone because they copied the idea of having a mobile phone, putting a camera on the phone, making the camera having video recording (although Apple were late out of the gate on this one)

Apple seem to forget that competition breeds development - they want to be able to stagnate the market and let people believe that "good enough" is what a smart phone should be, rather than pushing the bleeding edge of development to show what is capable on these devices!!!

This is all just so moronic

Does anyone, really, think any of this is actually good and worth pursuing? Honestly? Personal tastes and preferences for modern technology aside I can't honestly see how any of this, be it in Australia, Germany or anywhere else is genuinely worthy of merit. And not just this case either, most of the other ones brought in this area seem to be equally pointless. I will grant that the cases based on company X chasing after royalty payments from company Y may have some technical merit given that in most cases I have studied the underlying patents cover some fundamentally important areas but in most cases these too are also handled so badly as to paint one or both parties in a very bad light.

And yet here I am using a thoroughly despised operating system*, running on somebody's idea of hateful hardware**, which in turn is running a browser so horrible*** as to warrant instant death to anyone so dumb as to admit using it to post on a story about one company's complaint about another company's product looking too much like theirs. ****

Does the action of the company feed the flames or do the flames power the actions of the company?

*Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.

**HP dv6-2050eo laptop

***Firefox 8.0.1

****Downvote and flame away :-(

This is getting (even more) ridiculous...

Perhaps I'm being a bit cynical, but why even bother having a court system? Patent law cases may as well be heard in an auction house - cut out the middlemen and victory goes to the highest bidder.

I'm waiting for the "Very High Court" and "Even Higher Court" to be instated so that there can be an extra couple of rounds of funding - sorry, "justice" - for the law firms.

Sadly The Apple Law Firm are feeding the beast rather than trying to reign it in, and will continue to do so as long as patent trolling proves more profitable than innovation. I don't know why they don't just patent "a method of dragging dubious patent claims through all levels of the court system" and be done with it.

Kerchinnggg

I would love to know how much Apple will be paying Samsung for lost revenue over these false claims.

Going by how much Sony got from LG over the 3 week PS3 ban which earnt them $30m, i'm guessing it's not going to be cheap at all....

Simplest solution

Place the injunction on both the iPad and the Galaxy Tab.

Then neither can be sold until the case has run its course.

That would both make the conflicting parties think very hard before starting these stupid lawsuits.

At the same time it would prevent the plaintif from gaining an unfair sales head start over their competition by employing the courts as an anticompetitive weapon.