Samsung: Android's Multitouch Not As Good As Apple's 176
itwbennett writes "Hoping to avoid a sales ban in the Netherlands, Samsung has said that Android's multitouch software doesn't work as well as Apple's. Samsung lawyer Bas Berghuis van Woortman said that while Apple's technology is a 'very nice invention,' the Android system is harder for developers to use. Arguing the bizarre counterpoint, Apple's lawyer Theo Blomme told judge Peter Blok, that the Android multitouch isn't inferior and does so infringe on Apple's patent: 'They suggest that they have a lesser solution, but that is simply not true,' said Blomme."
As good a time as any other (Score:4, Interesting)
I just found this post today:
AT&T (yeah, them) is the one that invented a grid of colorful icons, half a decade before Apple.
http://www.statusq.org/archives/2012/08/30/4453/ [statusq.org]
Add this to the prior art file.
Re:As good a time as any other (Score:4, Interesting)
>Doesn't mean anything unless AT&T patented it.
Oh, so people have been doing $X for years, and it doesn't matter until Apple comes along to claim it all for itself.
Got it.
Re:What's wrong with this picture (Score:3, Interesting)
From the summary, " 'They suggest that they have a lesser solution, but that is simply not true,' "
" He's lying your honor, their Samsung multitouch is almost as good as Apple's"
I find it interesting that you edited them saying just as good to be "almost" as good.
Re:As good a time as any other (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Patents. Copyrights. (Score:3, Interesting)
As always it is with all gov't regulations, laws, the actual effect is the exact opposite of the supposedly desired one, and it's always negative for the people.
So the law against murder actually causes more murders and is negative for the people. Amazing what you learn on Slashdot.
It changes the definition of PRIOR (Score:0, Interesting)
It totally destroys prior art by redefining the word 'prior'.
It changes the definition of 'PRIOR' from it's time based common usage to the order in which it is filed at the patent office. So you can pretend there's still 'PRIOR' art, but lawyers note the word has a new definition, separate and devoid of the real world. With the ability to submit a patent WHEN YOU DO NOT HAVE A WORKING INVENTION means the submission date is meaningless. All that happens is that vague patents are filed in the area of current invention, to claim the first patent date over the actual inventors.
Apple did not invent multi-touch, they just patented it. It was theft of the invention from the original inventor.