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Apple must pay $368m after a court ruled FaceTime video calls infringed patents

• icefox 14y ago
  Overhyped title. Corporate lawyers explicitly tell developers to never ever look at patents, read about patent news etc because if there is a chance they knew about the patent and then used it it is tripple damages so of course they "pay no attention to anyone's patents", that is how you are suppose to behave given the way the system is currently setup.
• unwiredben 14y ago
  Ah, the Register... they should know that it's industry-standard practice for software engineers to explicitly not look into patents in their area since that reduces the risk that an infringement will be treated as "willful" which can lead to treble damages.