Apple Could Not be Reached
I do hope that their lack of response was not becaause you phoned them and their phones did not work, - as has been the case in the past!
It looks like Apple’s set for yet another court room showdown in China after a Taiwanese man claimed that the fruity toy maker infringed one of the patents he owns with its FaceTime video calling technology. Apple’s lawyers in the region have been a busy bunch ever since the firm settled out of court with Proview over the …
.. or does anyone else see that US companies are slowly hoisted by their own petard?
I bet the Chinese have realised you can make money with this without actually having to make something. It's brutally ironic that both the US and China kickstarted their economies by totally ignoring IP rights. The US has by now overcompensated for that, I wonder how long it takes for the Chinese to catch up.. Personally, I think they're too bright for that, they will only go so far as it creates revenue.
Having said that, as they already own large chunks of the US it feels a bit like self harm :)
Because that would deprive lawyers of vast amounts of money.
As for why it takes so long to bring cases, could it not be because you have to prove they're infringing on your patent. Sure, in some cases this is obvious because there is no way the thing can do what it does without infringing. In other cases though, I imagine it would be quite an effort to prove your patent is being used and therefore infringed upon?
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