Apple files yet another appeal against $503m FaceTime patent payout Apple has filed its fifth appeal against a half-billion award, claiming that it redesigned its FaceTime system to avoid infringing VirnetX's network security patents. The filing is particularly timely given the fact that on Monday Apple blocked group Facetime chats globally after a bonkers bug was revealed that let miscreants …
But if Apple had to change parts of FaceTime to ensure it was not violating the patent, it certainly would seem they violated the patent.
Also, appeals should work on a Double or Nuthin' system to prevent this endless abuse of the legal system.
Megaphone because the latest FaceTime bug turned nearly every Apple device into one.
I agree, if the damages were automatically doubled every time a corporation appealed and lost;
a/ these cases wouldnt drag on for years
b/ the courts would have time for "normal" legal issues; like finding trump guilty of treason and frying the moron; small "t", because he doesnt deserve a capital.
c/ Apple and similar serial patent abusers would go bust.
They usually either steal or avoid, even if it makes things inferior. Remember the infamous "you're holding it wrong"? That's because rather than use a cheap-royalty existing antenna design that didn't have that problem and paying a few cents per device, they thought they'd roll their own and failed to get it right. There were several choices on the market for pennies per device that were known to work fine.
Of course, right after that, they put out requests to hire a competent RF/antenna engineer.
Speaking of hubris - they didn't already have one but thought they could keep those immoral margin levels no one else has, despite the lawyers and so on.
It's not just the lawyers, it's a corporate culture disease. NIH taken to the limit.
My now-ex made up more than that for divorce court. Fortunately, it was in her handwriting which no one can read, so was thrown out (along with her for tossing a tantrum in contempt of court).
Don't forget that we are paying the judge to read all that crap. As well as, eventually, subsidizing all the lawyers to write and read it. They bill, the company involved charges a little more for product to maintain margin...we humans are *always* the losers in these.
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