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Apple v Samsung Foreman Gets More Things Wrong ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 05:29 PM EDT
I think that question is in response to Hogan's statement about how he can read source code and explained to the other jurors that they weren't interchangeable. From the BBC interview:
And so consequently, when we looked at the source code - I was able to read source code - I showed the jurors that the two methods in software were not the same, nor could they be interchangeable because the hardware that was involved between the old processor and the new processor - you couldn't load the new software methodology in the old system and expect that it was going to work, and the converse of that was true.

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Apple v Samsung Foreman Gets More Things Wrong ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 05:37 PM EDT
Firewheels's question did not interpret patent law, it submitted two alternative
scenarios (the patent being on the implementation versus the patent not being on
the implementation).

While Firewheels did claim that a Java implementation would be different than an
Objective C implementation, this is not necessarily owing to the fact that the
languages are different; it could be because the underlying implementations of
the languages are different. Just as one can have different implementations of
the same language, there can be different implementations of different
languages.

Finally, regardless what criteria is used to determine patent applicability, the
crux of Firewheels question remains: why should the criteria for determining
prior art be different than it is for determining infringement?



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So authoritative about patent law ...
Authored by: cjk fossman on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 10:07 PM EDT
What are your credentials?

How about just one link to support your interpretation of
"implemented?"

You see, I have *implemented* a few ideas in software, and I
do not agree with you.

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Apple v Samsung Foreman Gets More Things Wrong ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 08:28 AM EDT
Wouldn't your example give two different results?

Or am I missing the point?

-Section VIII

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Examples are not an implementation of the same problem.n/t
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 09:39 AM EDT
n/t

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