You don’t really have to say “alleged” if they’ve gotten a judgement against them in a court.
This is tech journalism, were you expecting integrity?
Patenting the idea of a vibrator is so fucking stupid. I hate this country.
Yeah, America should be more permissive towards megacorporations!
The current patent system greatly benefits the mega corporations. A small company could never make a phone because of the insane patent minefield owned by the mega corps.
I’m not sure rounded corners or a certain kind of icons are much better.
The Reuters article has this, which is interesting…
“Apple’s Taptic Engine is fundamentally different from Taction’s technology, which Taction’s own testing of Apple’s products confirmed during trial,” Apple said in response
But im not seeing lots of details on easy searches. You’re usually allowed to do something a different way though?
Hate Apple but hate patent trolls even more, hope the appeal goes through
Taction actually invented and sell this technology though, they aren’t just squatting on IP they bought. Not every patent lawsuit was filed by a troll.
Before the Taction lawsuit, Apple was previously hit with another patent infringement lawsuit from Immersion. The company filed a complaint against Apple, also accusing it of patent violations with haptic tech found in iPhones, Apple Watches and MacBooks, but eventually settled for an undisclosed amount. More notably, Apple is in the midst of another patent infringement battle surrounding its Apple Watch and a feature that tracks blood-oxygen levels. In November, another federal jury ruled that Apple has to pay $634 million for violation patents from Masimo, but the tech giant is similarly planning to appeal this jury verdict.
Seems like a pattern here. Fuck Apple
Well patenttrolling ist a thing that is pretty common nowadays so as a big distributer you will have a lot of these lawsuits
Remember when we used to patent innovations?
No
It’s “alleged” even though there’s a verdict against them? That can’t be right.
According to Bloomberg Law, Apple didn’t agree with the jury’s decision nor the damages and would appeal the verdict.
It’s alleged until the appeals stop, then it’s the final verdict
It’s alleged until the appeals stop, then it’s the final verdict
It’s only alleged until the verdict drops. Whether or not they appeal, they are currently found guilty of the crime, ergo, not “alleged”.
It’s generally accepted that a jury verdict is final at the moment it’s accepted by the trial court. So no “alleged” is needed. It’s not technically wrong to use it as a descriptive choice, since it’s now both factually established and still alleged, but it’s misleadingly tentative and not required.
The same can be said about any crime though, right? If you’re found guilty of murder, they drop the alleged and you’re just a murder. If you successfully appeal, then the title is dropped.
Apple is convicted of but alleges otherwise isn’t that difficult.
I believe the issue comes down to not needing to later retract things to change the statement, like yeah I know Apple was convicted of this and currently is “convicted” but if they appeal and win and in 5 years the article says “Apple convicted of X, must pay Y” you’d necessarily need a follow up article to correct it OR a retraction or whatever later.
Anyways. I bet that’s the reason, even if I agree that what you said should be the way it’s reported as it is currently the most accurate
For them, that may be pocket change.
From their last quarterly earnings report:
The Company posted quarterly revenue of $109.4 billion, up 16 percent year over year. Company gross margin was 50.1 percent
So the fine is less than a week of revenue.
Less than a week of revenue is not pocket change. If apple earned 2k a month, this fine would be 350
Parents and ads… The new business.
