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Was this his wish?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 05:30 PM EDT
IIRC, Steve said he would spend all of his money to stop Android. But did he
mean that to include all of Apple's money as well? The other question is whether
this was the last wish of a sane man, or deluded ramblings of a man seriously
deranged by his condition?

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Were I Googlerola....I'd chase a few judge brownie points
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 05:58 PM EDT
I'd get some serious judge points by making offers to narrow claims and locating
prior art and thus actually speeding the process.
1) In Florida, particularly, by offering to narrow the claims to what they
started out with, conditioned on Apple doing the same.
2) In front of Judge Koh, by dropping a bunch of objections to claim
construction, and simply coming up with lots of prior art...

I'm with PJ...picking from LISTS? How long has that been in my web browser?
Codewright programmer's editor in how many Windows dialogs from 1995? What
about Netscape? The original MAC?

(Christenson)

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That's a point I'd make ...
Authored by: Wol on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 06:16 PM EDT
Where the Judge said that Apple and Samsung weren't prepared to settle.

Samsung should file a list of all the lawsuits, point out that Apple started
every single one, and enclose a copy of the English judgement that forced Apple
to apologise. Then ask the Judge "what exactly are we supposed to do, if
all these lawsuits are bogus? Give in to extortion?"

Cheers,
Wol

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Apple could easily end this
Authored by: ailuromancy on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 10:21 AM EDT

They could offer to pay all Samsung's legal fees and end all the litigation on condition that Samsung keeps the agreement secret. That sort of deal has worked before. Afterwards, Apple can claim that they won because Samsung agreed to all their demands.

I think Apple will keep this farce going until the money runs out. There have been plenty of articles about Apple having a huge pile of cash, but not paying dividends. A different way to look at it is that Apple is paying dividends to law firms, but not to investors. It could be worse - they could spend all their money on a UFO.

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PJ's comment re: Apple and Motorola not interested in settling
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 09:21 PM EDT
Steve Jobs started it, and he's now dead, and Apple is left with "the cult of the dead leader". Apple's current leadership can't stop the war without betraying Steve's dying wishes.

That's the same problem that North Korea has, isn't it? Kim Jong-il is dead, but in the constitution he is still the "Eternal General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea" and the "Eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission". His son Kim Jong-un is running the country, but his dead father is still theoretically the head of it.

So North Korea is threatening to "go nuclear" and wipe out South Korea, while Apple is threatening to "go nuclear" and wipe out Android. Poor Samsung! They don't know which nutter is going to try to nuke them first!

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