A German court in Mannheim has ruled against one of the patents in a suit brought by Samsung against Apple, one of the many battlegrounds in the tech titans' patent wars. Samsung can still appeal against the ruling and also has suits claiming a dozen or so other patents are being infringed by the fruitchomp-branded fondleslab …

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Friday 20th January 2012 16:39 GMT LarsG

HEADLINE IN DAS 'BILD' NEWSPAPER

German courts are to replace all computer hardware over the next year.

Apples generous offer has saved the German government 40% in upgrade costs.

German judiciary have stated that the free ipads they have been given to make them more efficient will in no way lead them to make bias judgements.

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1. Friday 20th January 2012 17:09 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  LarsG, I see you have you now resorted to reading the German version of the Daily Mail in your longstanding quest to spew hate for Apple.
  
  Especially from a tabloid that had an app called "Shake the Bild girl" rejected from the App Store (due to it's nudity cotent)?
  
  Do you even believe the shit you're writing?
  
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  1. Saturday 21st January 2012 07:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    nudity
    
    Not allowing the 'shake the bild' girl is just a form of Apple censorship!
    
    It's ok in the US to show lots of 'murder death kill but when it comes to showing a bit of 'ti**y' they get all worked up and self rightuous.
    
    Accidentally flash a bit of ni**ple and all hell breaks loose.
    
    I for one will stick to android for its porn content apps, oh yes!
    
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2. Friday 20th January 2012 17:11 GMT ThomH
  
  Das Bild = The Sun, for Germany
  
  Title says it all. Your news source is a sensationalist tabloid, the homepage of which is currently showing sufficiently much female flesh that those at work should probably not check for themselves.
  
  In any case the courts in every other country seem to be able to come to absurd patent decisions without any third-hand gutter insinuations of corruption so I'm willing to believe the case was decided on the merits.
  
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  1. Saturday 21st January 2012 08:10 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    #
    
    Dad Bild headline states online readership increases by 80% through smartphone access.
    
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  2. Saturday 21st January 2012 08:10 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    ?
    
    I see nothing wrong with the Sun?
    
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    1. Sunday 22nd January 2012 18:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
      
      RE: ?
      
      Well, it's big and shiny and makes life on Earth possible...
      
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3. Friday 20th January 2012 18:15 GMT Field Marshal Von Krakenfart
  
  Das bootinderarse
  
  Quite clearly a rant by LarsG with no proof.
  
  Unfortunately I am inclined to agree with him, the greed of big corporations knows no bounds, it's not personal ya know, it’s just business.
  
  For example, Goldman Sachs, employed by the Irish government to advise it on how to deal with the bond holders of the discredited Anglo Irish bank such as Goldman Sachs. No conflict of interest, it’s just business.
  
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4. Friday 20th January 2012 19:39 GMT LarsG
  
  SATIRE.... YES
  
  For goodness sake guys and gals get a sense of humour, you sound like a bunch of Germans at a comedy festival.
  
  Crikey, I can't believe you've all gone and looked up the website to find the article.
  
  What is it with the defensiveness of these fanbois and their downvoting? Then the personal attacks calling me a liar!
  
  It's a tongue in cheek post.
  
  I am writing this on an Apple iPhone 4s with the smug satisfied smile on my face that I have shaken the tree and the apples have fallen.
  
  I will now retire for the evening thinking happy thoughts.
  
  :-)
  
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  1. Friday 20th January 2012 20:15 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    "Retire for the evening thinking happy thoughts"
    
    Yes, I did figure you probably jerk off at this.
    
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  2. Friday 20th January 2012 23:11 GMT ThomH
    
    @LarsG
    
    Oh, you should have said. I didn't realise that it was a joke, just like on Top Gear when they do their jokes.
    
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  3. Friday 20th January 2012 23:27 GMT Destroy All Monsters
    
    "LOL I TROLL U"
    
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  4. Saturday 21st January 2012 14:16 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Skide godt Egon
    
    LarsG, good one! Use the "Joke" icon next time to warn those incapable of discerning your message intent.
    
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  5. Monday 23rd January 2012 13:54 GMT Field Marshal Von Krakenfart
    
    Ja! Das ist gut.
    
    Now I know you've lost it LarsG, Germans at a comedy festival
    
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5. Saturday 21st January 2012 11:50 GMT Graham Wilson
  
  @LarsG - There's no uncertainty here!
  
  Yuh don't have to Einstein or understand Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principal to be certain the thumbs-downers own iPads.
  
  >;-)
  
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Friday 20th January 2012 17:41 GMT Mad Chaz

And the very clear winner is ....

The IP Lawers.

Seriously, both compagnies can spend themselves into a black hole without a clear winner, for the simple reason that a LOT of today's patents are just pure crap. When you have a patent on a design of the UI, then you have 20 more like it, it becomes nothing but laughing stock.

Patents are broken. They need a very serious scrubing and "back to basic" cleaning.

When it's that obvious you can do something, it shouldn't be patentable.

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Friday 20th January 2012 18:14 GMT Anonymous Coward

RE: HEADLINE IN DAS 'BILD' NEWSPAPER

So this is the reason for Apple's success - their customers' lack of critical thinking skills.

Apple says 'we're wonderful' so it MUST be true.

LarsG makes up a headline in Das Bilt and the same response from the fanbois.

Don't bother to check, just slag off Das Bild. (well worth slagging off, BTW, but not for printing something they haven't).

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1. Friday 20th January 2012 19:10 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Can you prove there was no article like that in Das Bild? I got lost in the maze of other crap stories.
  
  Maybe it was in the print edition only?
  
  LarsG tends to have his "creative interpretations", but as far as I can recall blatant lying is a new low for him. Good to know if it's so, would help discredit his further rants.
  
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  1. Friday 20th January 2012 20:03 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    made me laugh
    
    LarsG thanks for the chuckle, ipads making the Germans more efficient!
    
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    1. Saturday 21st January 2012 14:21 GMT Anonymous Coward
      
      Contrary to popular belief ...
      
      the Germans are not in any way efficient. Their society is massively antiquated, hoplesslty inefficient, conservative and a general pain in the arse to be part of. Having worked there for several years, I speak from my personal experience. Germany is hopelssly, pointedly, inefficient.
      
      What the Germans are and Germany is, is highly organised. This is not the same thing.
      
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Friday 20th January 2012 19:24 GMT Anonymous Coward

i think

I think LarsG was being satirical.

The way the German courts have appeared to back apple over Samsung is enough to make you sniff the air to detect for something nasty....

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1. Friday 20th January 2012 20:08 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  LarsG is that you posting as AC talking about yourself in the third person again?
  
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  1. Sunday 22nd January 2012 20:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    err
    
    err, no, it was me posting as me but under the AC tag....
    
    I sensed straight away that he was being satirical and decided to say so,
    
    its a sad sate of affairs that someone would think that somebody would be so pathetic to comment about themselves in the 3rd person on a web forum...
    
    pathetic really...
    
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Friday 20th January 2012 19:44 GMT Jeebus

Unsurprisingly European governments and law systems find in favour of Apple.

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Friday 20th January 2012 22:18 GMT Lars

Somebody

should shoot down this flawed patent system, but i suppose nobody will.

Perhaps a good start would be to shorten their lifespan a lot.

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Saturday 21st January 2012 18:47 GMT Robert Carnegie

Is it the Tony Hancock radio episode where he's a gardener growing a prize marrow

...and he strolls into the court (to stop the council building a road over his garden, or something) and says, "Good morning, judge, have an Apple"?

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Monday 23rd January 2012 10:54 GMT TeeCee

"...."slavishly" copy Cupertino's iPhones and iPads."

Dunno about that, but Samsung's legal strategy seems awfully familiar.

Maybe Apple should have patented: "Sueing the fuck out of anyone, whether or not you have a leg to stand on"?

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