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"If my product has 15 lines of infringing code out of 2 million, then you shouldn't be entitled to my entire profit margin." If out of 2M lines of code you hav
by lightedman 10y ago
"If my product has 15 lines of infringing code out of 2 million, then you shouldn't be entitled to my entire profit margin."
If out of 2M lines of code you have 15 infringing lines, unless those lines are to something very specific and not general like say a simple random number generator anyone using that language would write the exact same way, you shouldn't have to pay jack and it shouldn't be considered infringing in the first place.
- r00fus 10y agoLOC is a bad analogy as it's often easy to determine coupling. It'd be more like saying my car had tail/headlights like a Mercedes - how much of my sales/revenue is because it looks like a Merc?
- drzaiusapelord 10y agoTrademarks and trade dress are completely separate issues from software patents. I can code something 100% unique with an apple logo and looks exactly like an ipad. I violate no software patents.
- nobleach 10y agoIf I'm not mistaken, the case wasn't about lines of code. To be sure, iOS is written in ObjC and Samsung's OS is written in Dalvik. There are probably NO lines of overlap. Now boot each phone next to each other... Samsung certainly did snag a few UI ideas.