The Patent Wars have been going on for so long that you start to forget why we ’re here . Who shot first — Apple ? Samsung ? Greedo?Paul M. Barrett at Businessweek has a bully rundownon how we baffle here , and why everything stems back to Apple ’s movement against Android .
Steve Jobs ’ “ thermonuclear ” resolution against Android is well known by now . It also make sense , considering how much the Android conflict cue Apple of another warfare it waged several decennium ago . One it lost , badly :
job ’s scandalisation reflected his plastic corporate experience in the 1980s , when he refuse to certify the Macintosh operating system of rules for Apple ’s stylish background computer . His nemesis , Bill Gates , licensed Microsoft ’s ( MSFT ) competing Windows operating system ( and DOS before that ) to numerous PC manufacturers . Jobs scorn Windows as an inferior production , but prig collection notwithstanding , Microsoft stomped Apple in the desktop software marketplace .
The lesson learned ? While Jobs was run ballistic about Android rive him off , Apple could n’t action Google because Google was n’t making the phones . rather , it had to sue everyone :
Jobs ’s notion of channeling his temper into a federal character face several obstacles , however . As a practical matter , a judge could not regularize Google to break off sell copycat phones because Google did n’t deal phones in the first place . Likewise , Google could n’t be squeeze to pay money damage related to allegedly contraband phones manufactured and marketed by other companies . On a symbolic level , stabbing directly at Google ’s jugular might have stimulate antipathy toward Apple among consumers and the Silicon Valley elite .
orchard apple tree set up its sights on presume - weakling HTC first . But HTC lawyered up — with a little help from Google — and Apple had to back off of some of its demands before it even capture to trial . That put Apple ’s blood line in the pee , andeveryone just start beating the perdition out of each other :
For this dubious final result , Apple paid a price : HTC and other telephone set Maker commence filing patent claims against Apple . Motorola Mobility did n’t wait for Jobs to move first . In October 2010 , the Libertyville ( Ill.)-based manufacturer , represented by Quinn Emanuel , filed a ternion of lawsuits and an ITC complaint impeach Apple of contravene its letters patent . Apple answer with an ITC action that Motorola telephone running Android - the Droid , Droid 2 , Droid X - replicate the iPhone . For procedural reasons , Apple ’s claim move more fleetly , and in January of this year , an ITC administrative law judge decree that Apple had failed to show any irreverence by Motorola . On March 16 , the mission uphold Motorola ’s victory .
Apple and Samsung , two of the more active combatants , are obviously in carry on talks to make up their myriad lawsuits and bury the Burn Book . But the patent warsmight be here to appease :
[ Intellectual Property assimilator ] Shih suggests that a mobile - gadget patent of invention war may have been inevitable . Gargantuan rivals with deep pockets converged on the securities industry from several directions : Apple ( and Microsoft ) out of the calculator business , Google from the Internet hunting - and - advertising business , Asian manufacturer from telecommunications . Suing over patents became just another weapon , like marketing or pricing .
ensure tocheck out the whole profile / warfare historyover at Businessweek . [ Businessweek ]
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