VIA Sues Apple for Patent Infringement, VIA Wants iPad, iPhone Banned in USA

[AlfredJPruffock]

Its affidavit swearing time
Sign it on the dotted line
Hold your Bible in your hand
Now all that's left is to
Find yourself a new brand . . .


Were gonna play
the sue me,
sue You blues

Hold the block on Apples money flow
Move it into HTC joint escrow
Court receiver, laughs Google and thrills
But in the end we just pay those
Lawyers theit bills

When you serve me
And I serve you
Swing your partners, all get screwed

Bring your lawyer
And I'll bring mine
Get together, and we could have
A bad time

[Addanc]

Patent war hits small app developers. Here are some real parasites.

[PAH]

While the dinosaurs attack each other there's a small furry creature watching from a cave.

No-one knows this creature. No-one knows about its scribblings on the cave wall. Scribblings of a design so great it will free us all from the tyrannical beasts. A super killer application.

The furry creature could sense the time for the great uprising was drawing near. Just a while longer. Nearly there.

Suddenly the landlord of the cave was eaten by a dinosaur. The furry creature had to preserve his scribblings. He had to buy the cave.

The super killer application could wait, had to wait. The dinosaurs fought on.

From space a huge rock approached.

[The rest of the story is lost in time but it is thought that all perished by the impact of the huge rock. A book was written trying to reshape history so man wouldn't search for the cave of the super killer application. For its design is too great, too powerful. Anyone that saw the design would be consumed by it and become squirrel nut bonkers.]

[d000hg]

Google bought Motorola...

[VectraMan]

21 lawsuits so far:

Samsung-Apple patent lawsuit tally hits 21, and counting ? The Register

Apple and HTC are also suing each other. Google have given some of their patents (that they probably bought from someone else) to HTC to help them sue Apple.

Meanwhile Microsoft have successful extracted royalties from five different manufacturers of Android phones. And then there's Oracle trying to stop Google using Java in Android.

[Sysman]

Methinks it's time to build Ark B.

Since we all have our own phones now I propose that the places formerly reserved for telephone sanitisers are filled with patent lawyers.

[PAH]

They should build the biggest baddest patent they have, then let them fight it out, winner takes all.

About the only real use these patents have.

[PAH]

That's why we need an iApp to keep track. Apple took Samsung to court to block their tablet. So Samsung are now suing Apple?

No wonder Jobs left the job. Leave the to the women.

[darmstadt]

So Via are suing Apple, Apple are suing Samsung, Samsung are .... oh FFS!

Is there an app to show who is suing who?

Samsung are suing Apple (did you know that many of the components in the iPhone are made by Samsung?) and want to get the iPhone 5 banned in Europe when it is launched...

[PAH]

So Via are suing Apple, Apple are suing Samsung, Samsung are .... oh FFS!

Is there an app to show who is suing who?

[scooterscot]

Good luck with that.

VIA Sues Apple for Patent Infringement
VIA Sues Apple for Patent Infringement - MarketWatch
VIA Sues Apple for Patent Infringement | Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Complaint covers three patents infringed by Apple products
PRESS RELEASE
Sept. 22, 2011, 6:40 p.m. EDT

TAIPEI, Taiwan, Sep 22, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced it has taken legal action against Apple Inc., filing a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) and the US District Court of Delaware for patent infringement by Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV product lines, and associated software.

"VIA has built up an extensive IP portfolio consisting of over 5,000 patents as a result of significant investments in world class technology research and development," commented Wenchi Chen, CEO, VIA Technologies, Inc. "We are determined to protect our interests and the interests of our stockholders when our patents are infringed upon."