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Funny how a patent warmonger company like Apple tries to fight against others' patents, when they are on the bad side. All these patents are now backing off to

Funny how a patent warmonger company like Apple tries to fight against others' patents, when they are on the bad side. All these patents are now backing off too much the evolution

croh 7y ago
warmonger is indeed good word for apple.
threeseed 7y ago
Apple is a patent warmonger company ? If that was remotely true they would be filing lawsuits all over the place. In fact the only time I can recall them suing anyone was Samsung who is hardly an innocent party.
- Monroe13 7y ago
  Apple has filed more inter partes review petitions than any other company since the process came available a few years back. IPRs are very expensive for a patent owner to defend (low- to mid-six figures) so from the patent owner perspective Apple definitely fits the description of warmonger. Of course, if you think these patents are junk that never should have issued, Apple is doing God’s work.
  - mlyle 7y ago
    Sure but the original comment was > Funny how a patent warmonger company like Apple tries to fight against others' patents Implying that Apple is a particularly aggressive company when it comes to patent enforcement. Which I think most all of us can agree they're not Qualcomm or IBM.
    - cromwellian 7y ago
      Apple has sued for plenty of patents before including suing for “data detectors”, eg linkifying onscreen text or adding actions based on regexp or other pattern matching, some trivia and obvious to most engineers and with prior art in old email/news readers. They also had a habit of suing over trivial and obvious design patents. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_patent_wars https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_patent_wars However they are no where close to some of the worst offenders.
rapsey 7y ago
You are criticizing them for making use of a system they have no choice but to aggressively participate in or face destruction by someone who does. Patent right payments and lawsuits are in the billions.

Funny how a patent warmonger company like Apple tries to fight against others' patents, when they are on the bad side. All these patents are now backing off too much the evolution

croh 7y ago

warmonger is indeed good word for apple.

threeseed 7y ago

Apple is a patent warmonger company ? If that was remotely true they would be filing lawsuits all over the place. In fact the only time I can recall them suing anyone was Samsung who is hardly an innocent party.

Monroe13 7y ago
Apple has filed more inter partes review petitions than any other company since the process came available a few years back. IPRs are very expensive for a patent owner to defend (low- to mid-six figures) so from the patent owner perspective Apple definitely fits the description of warmonger. Of course, if you think these patents are junk that never should have issued, Apple is doing God’s work.
- mlyle 7y ago
  Sure but the original comment was > Funny how a patent warmonger company like Apple tries to fight against others' patents Implying that Apple is a particularly aggressive company when it comes to patent enforcement. Which I think most all of us can agree they're not Qualcomm or IBM.
  - cromwellian 7y ago
    Apple has sued for plenty of patents before including suing for “data detectors”, eg linkifying onscreen text or adding actions based on regexp or other pattern matching, some trivia and obvious to most engineers and with prior art in old email/news readers. They also had a habit of suing over trivial and obvious design patents. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_patent_wars https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_patent_wars However they are no where close to some of the worst offenders.

rapsey 7y ago

You are criticizing them for making use of a system they have no choice but to aggressively participate in or face destruction by someone who does. Patent right payments and lawsuits are in the billions.