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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (20303)	7/4/2012 3:20:02 AM
From: sylvester80	3 Recommendations Respond to of 32680

Apple has had more junk patents invalidated than anyone. We are down to 4 and those 4 will go down like the other 125... Apple has the money to patent every stolen garbage idea and call it their own because iMorons give them money for iJUNK and the USPTO will accept anything from anyone who has the money to file it. The US patent system is broken. Software patents are garbage and Apple's patents are 10x the garbage that stick to high heaven. The good thing is that when they are invalidated, Apple will lose $100 million. It will take a hit in their pocket for these a-holes to stop with these garbage frivolous lawsuits. BOYCOTT APPLE...

To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (20303)	7/4/2012 11:15:15 AM
From: sylvester80	2 Recommendations Respond to of 32680

BREAKING..HTC Phones Don’t Infringe Apple Patents, U.K. Judge Says [ed..kiss those CRAPple garbage patents goodbye] By Kit Chellel - Jul 4, 2012 6:24 AM MT bloomberg.com HTC Corp. (2498), Asia’s second-largest smartphone maker, won a London court ruling against Apple Inc. (AAPL) over patents for touchscreen technology used for its mobile devices, including Apple’s slide-to-unlock feature. HTC’s devices don’t infringe four Apple patents for the technology and three of those patents are invalid, Judge Christopher Floyd said today. In addition to the slide-to-unlock feature, today’s ruling covered Apple’s patents on tools used to scroll through photographs and change alphabets, and software allowing users to touch the screen in two spots simultaneously. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg The U.K. court judgment “marks a considerable defeat for Apple in the smartphone patent wars,” said Peter Bell, an attorney at Stevens & Bolton LLP, who isn’t involved in the case. “Two of Apple’s prize patents have been knocked out in the U.K.” Apple is fighting patent lawsuits on four continents against rivals including HTC and South Korea-based Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) as it competes for dominance of the $219 billion global smartphone market. The firms have accused each other of copying designs and technology used in mobile devices. “Competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours,” Cupertino, California-based Apple said in an e-mailed statement, without commenting specifically on today’s decision. While HTC was pleased with the ruling, “we remain disappointed that Apple continues to favor competition in the courtroom over competition in the marketplace,” Andrea Sommer, a spokeswoman for the Taoyuan City, Taiwan-based company said. Photographs, AlphabetsIn addition to the slide-to-unlock feature, today’s ruling covered Apple’s patents on tools used to scroll through photographs and change alphabets, and software allowing users to touch the screen in two spots simultaneously. While the court ruled that Apple’s photo-management patent is valid, Floyd found that HTC didn’t infringe it. The same four patents are being contested by Apple and HTC in German lawsuits, scheduled to be heard later this year. In the U.S., Apple tried to stop HTC from importing its newest phones, saying they violate a patent order issued in December. The U.S. International Trade Commission decided this week that HTC could continue to import the devices while it investigated claims a system for detecting telephone numbers in e-mails was copied. Before his death, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs waged war on Google Inc.’s Android operating system, used by HTC, Samsung and other rivals in their phones. He told his authorized biographer he would spend every penny in the company’s coffers “to destroy Android” because it was a stolen product. The case is: HTC Europe Co. Ltd v Apple Inc., High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, HC11C02826 To contact the reporter on this story: Kit Chellel in London at cchellel@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Anthony Aarons at aaarons@bloomberg.net

To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (20303)	7/5/2012 1:58:27 AM
From: sylvester80	1 Recommendation Respond to of 32680

HTC invalidates three Apple patents David Manners Thursday 05 July 2012 01:00 electronicsweekly.com The Apple slide-to-unlock patent was held invalid by the High Court in London yesterday aloing with two other patents. HTC was asking the court to invlidate four Apple patents of which this was one. The other two patents also invalidated were a patent for a multilingual keyboard and a patent for a system which decided which parts of a screen needed single finger touch, which multi-finger touch, and which were not sensitive to finger touch. The judge refused to rule on the validity of a fourth patent, covering the Apple feature which allows you to drag an image to the edge of the screen which then bounces back to its original position, on the grounds that it was irrelevant in this particular case.

To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (20303)	7/5/2012 2:01:02 AM
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UK High Court rules three Apple patents invalid, vindicates HTC [ed: I will LMFAO when CRAPple loses that $100million...] By Aaron Souppouris on July 4, 2012 11:45 am117COMMENTS theverge.com inShare The UK High Court of Justice's Chancery Division has today ruled that HTC smartphones are not in violation of any of the EU patents Apple brought to the court. In addition, Judge Christopher Floyd, who presided over the case, declared three of the four Apple patents invalid. The patents in question are applicable solely within the European Union, and are focused on slide-to-unlock, multitouch, and the handling of foreign language text input. Apple and HTC are fighting multiple legal battles across Europe and the US, but the High Court's decision does not directly affect any cases outside of the UK as other courts don't have to follow the UK's lead. The two companies are fighting over the same group of patents in Germany, and HTC may attempt to use the High Court's ruling to influence decisions elsewhere. SLIDE-TO-UNLOCK PATENT DECLARED INVALID The slide-to-unlock patent, #2964022, was declared invalid in the UK due to its similarity to the unlocking paradigm found on the Neonode N1, a Swedish touchscreen phone launched well before the iPhone. For the multitouch patent, #2098948, Judge Floyd deemed multitouch to be a computer program and so not patentable as an invention under UK law. Finally, patent #1168859, which relates to the way a phone handles switching between foreign-language characters, was found too close to systems found elsewhere, and was not "novel." The Judge also noted that Apple's implementation was an "obvious" extension of prior work. Floyd did rule that a photo management patent, #2059868, was valid, but found that HTC's products did not infringe on it. JUST A SMALL PART OF A FAR LARGER PICTURE While today's ruling is a definite victory for HTC in the UK, it's just a small part of a far larger picture. Apple, Samsung, HTC, and all of the companies involved in the current round of patent disputes will take their fights around the world looking for favorable courts. In May, Apple's litigation resulted in the HTC One X and S being held at US customs for two weeks, and just yesterday the ITC denied Apple's request for an emergency ban on some HTC devices in the US. At least UK citizens don't have to fear a similar ban any time soon.