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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2012 @ 02:05 PM EDT |
I think this case and the Oracle-vs-Google are both
excellent examples of how the complexity of evaluating
patent infringement is rising rapidly. And this is only
going to get much worse given how things are developing.
The idea that a company can play the government processes to
both obtain a government enforced monopoly (i.e. a patent or
copyright) to control the market, and then has to deal with
government anti-trust if their defense of the monopoly is
too effective is a horrendous waste of public resources, not
to mention the corporate wealth destroyed in the litigation
processes.
And now this stupid meme has spread worldwide thanks to
Apple's self-rigthteous hold-over from Steve Job's
emotionally destructive control freakery. Ugh!
The good news in all of this is that patents are going to
become much more conspicuous across the world. And what
little Apple may have gained in this one battle will be lost
in the numerous other non-US battles which arise.
Ultimately, I am hopeful that Samsung keeps pressing Apple
worldwide. I think the only thing that will get the US
Congress to finally cry uncle on the USPTO's approving crap
patents is to have a huge company like Apple fail
economically. It's the only way they will believe that there
is more harm than good in the current way the US patent
system has emerged (no one in particular's fault...it's just
the natural consequences of a complex system's unintended
unanticipated secondary and tertiary effects).
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