Apple Awarded Injunction Against Motorola Android Products In Germany And Why It Only Matters To Lawyers

(11:10 am PDT, Mar 1st 2012)

Apple Awarded Injunction Against Motorola Android Products In Germany And Why It Only Matters To Lawyers
The latest ruling to come out of the ridiculous patent game comes in favor of Apple and awards them an injunction on Motorola Android products found to infringe on an Apple patent regarding scrolling behavior in the photo gallery application. What does this ruling actually mean for German users? Nothing really. Motorola will simply push an update to change the scrolling behavior and that will be the end of that. Will German Motorola users notice the change? Most likely not. So what was the point? The same point of everything that involves lawyers — money.

I don’t know about you but I’ve grown overly tired of these patent lawsuits and can think of a million better ways to spend all that money. Anyhoo, if this is your cup of tea, check out the source links for all the dirty details.

via The Verge

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  • Prof. Peabody

    You know what would be better than this useless paragraph-and-a-half rant?  

    An actual article that explains what the patent victory was about and what will have to be changed in the software for Motorola to get around it.  

    The patent in question describes pretty much the entire UI of the iOS photos app, yet all we get here is some glib remark about how the scrolling might change.  

    It amazes me that anyone is actually willing to pay for crap “writing” like this.  Cult of mac commenters are better writers than those doing most of the “writing,” and they don’t just make immature off the cuff remarks and claim it to be an “article” either.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M6IO7JTHQSEW67WZUXUZBN5ZDA Roontoon

    Worthless waste of time.

  • Kr00

    I’m sick of all these patent wars too, just like I’m sick of flame articles like this that give no REAL information, just a piece to inflame the haters.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tom.losh Tom Losh

    I’m a UNIX SysAd since 1984 and a Mac user since ’86, and I have a fair number of Apple products – including this computer – I use a Motorola Android smartphone, BUT this sort of “attack the world” attitude Apple has, with no thought for the effect on the customer, angers me.

    As much as I dislike these patent wars, my hope is that Googorola digs deep into it massive bucket of patents and finds one that is basic enough, strong enough, and wide reaching enough that they can stop Apple’s patent attacks by forcing an agreement from all parties that they will quit this insane behavior.

    • lucascott

      Or a better thought, Google and it’s OEMs can stop using patented nonFrand tech they don’t have permission to use and create their own tech.

      Oh and can stop playing games over the FRAND patents they control

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