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Another well-known Troll fighter is Vizio.

• yenda 11y ago
  Another well known patent troll is Apple, patenting your hands movements and phone shape since 1984. Allowing the marketing industry to replace the hardware industry product after product.
  • soup10 11y ago
    Doesn't help much apparently, since android is one of the largest software design 'thefts' ever, and the only thing they couldn't include was 'swipe to unlock' and the apple logo.
    • rplnt 11y ago
      Don't they pay Apple and Microsoft for various patents though? The vendors that is.
      • soup10 11y ago
        I think they do for chips and stuff, not sure about design. Much harder to enforce most design stuff because once you've found 'the good way' it seems super obvious.
      • malka 11y ago
        Actually Android is more profitable to Microsoft than Windows Phone itself.
  • rimantas 11y ago
    Apple does release products, you might want to check the definition of the patent troll.
    • marcosdumay 11y ago
      Well, last time I checked, "patent troll" wasn't on the dictionary. But let's all accept the definition that says that big corporations can do everything they want, while small inventors (yes, they exist) must concede unilaterally of any rights. No way there's a better definition around.
      • a3n 11y ago
        https://duckduckgo.com/?q=NPE+patent&t=lm https://duckduckgo.com/?q=NPE+patent&t=lm
      • oddevan 11y ago
        I thought the accepted definition was a company whose only source of revenue was patent licenses and lawsuits, not products or services based on said patents.
  • dietrichepp 11y ago
    "Phone shape"... you must be thinking of a design patent. That's an entirely different beast from a utility patent, which is what Newegg fights.
• Udo_Schmitz 11y ago
  That may be so, but with Vizio there are other problems: http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/24/vizio-ipo-inscape-acr/ http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/24/vizio-ipo-inscape-acr/