https://touchreviews.net/apple-patent-suit-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-functionality/ iPhone, iPad Games, Apps, Reviews, News Wed, 04 Feb 2015 21:56:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: Stockhighroller https://touchreviews.net/apple-patent-suit-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-functionality/#comment-6197 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:38:00 +0000 https://touchreviews.net/?p=8838#comment-6197 Thanks for the reply; I appreciate the response. I do see your point of not actually producing/dealing with production issues. VirnetX cannot infringe if they do not produce anything, but they can accuse others of infringement.
But at the same time, these VPN ideas are/were actually innovative and made the establishment of VPN much easier than previously possible. Companies ought to pay up if they intend to use that method in their products. For example, if the iPhone utilizes these patents, Apple should pay for using the idea or find another way to accomplish the same thing. The VirnetX inventors chose to try to sell their patented methods to other companies so they could use it in their products, rather than producing everything themselves. I don’t think that is unfair, but I see how it could be abused.
FYI, I believe VirnetX does have a product for secure communications in the BETA testing stage if I am not mistaken.

]]> By: Anonymous https://touchreviews.net/apple-patent-suit-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-functionality/#comment-6124 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:04:00 +0000 https://touchreviews.net/?p=8838#comment-6124 I am biassed against this kind of lawsuit. I admit it. :) My main reason for being so is that these companies by their own admission don’t actually make anything. They simply collate ideas and attempt (quite often successfully) to profit from that portfolio.

That is a little different from actually innovating things, bringing them to market, and dealing with real world production issues, and *then* defending that concept from competitors. Which is what I think most right-minded people agree that Patent laws were actually designed for.

It also seems like a fairly pointless existence to me. Unless all you care about is money. And you could kind of draw parallels between that style of business and the actions of companies who steal ideas from people to copy them. By that I mean that both are attempts to profit from other people’s hard work.

]]> By: Anonymous https://touchreviews.net/apple-patent-suit-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-functionality/#comment-6125 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:03:00 +0000 https://touchreviews.net/?p=8838#comment-6125 iPod Touch is the full name of the iPod. :)

]]> By: Stockhighroller https://touchreviews.net/apple-patent-suit-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-functionality/#comment-6100 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:44:00 +0000 https://touchreviews.net/?p=8838#comment-6100 Umm, yes I think that companies and individuals have the right to sue if their intellectual property is used illegally….seems obvious. Microsoft would not have settled if the case didn’t have merit, they would have just fought it further in court. Article seems very biased.

]]> By: simba https://touchreviews.net/apple-patent-suit-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-functionality/#comment-6098 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:41:00 +0000 https://touchreviews.net/?p=8838#comment-6098 The title is wrong, The suit was against networking protocol and not against the touch screen interface.

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