Patent_War - cs188-tran

PATENT
WARS

What is a patent?

•
a form of intellectual
property

•
consists of exclusive right

•
assigned to the inventor

•
required one of more
claims defining the
invention


To prevent others from
making, selling, or distributing
the invention without
permission

What is the point?

Apple vs Android


Mobile


Steve Jobs' stated:






"I will spend my last dying


breath if I need to, and I will


spend every penny of Apple


$40 billion in the bank, to


right this wrong...






I'm going to destroy Android,

because it's a stolen product.


I'm willing to go thermonuclear

war on this ."

Apple vs HTC

•
Sued HTC for 20 patents
infringement


Patent #7,362,331
: Time
-
Based, Non
-
Constant Translation Of User Interface Objects
Between States


Patent #7,479,949
: Touch Screen Device, Method, And Graphical User Interface For
Determining Commands By Applying Heuristics


Patent #7,657,849
: Unlocking A Device By Performing Gestures On An Unlock Image


Patent #7,469,381
: List Scrolling And Document Translation, Scaling, And Rotation
On A Touch
-
Screen Display

Patent #5,920,726
: System And Method For Managing Power Conditions Within A
Digital Camera Device


Patent #7,633,076
: Automated Response To And Sensing Of User Activity In Portable
Devices


Patent #5,848,105
: GMSK Signal Processors For Improved Communications Capacity
And Quality


Patent #7,383,453
: Conserving Power By Reducing Voltage Supplied To An
Instruction
-
Processing Portion Of A Processor


Patent #5,455,599
: Object
-
Oriented Graphic System

Patent #6,424,354
: Object
-
Oriented Event Notification System With Listener
Registration Of Both Interests And Methods


Patent #5,481,721
: Method for providing automatic and dynamic translation of
object oriented programming language
-
based message passing into operation
system message passing using proxy objects

Patents

#5,519,867

and

#6,275,983
:

Object Oriented Multitasking
System

and

Object
-
Oriented Operating System


Patent #5,566,337
: Method and apparatus for distributing events in an operating
system



Patent #5,929,852
: Encapsulated network entity reference of a network
component system


Patent 5,946,647
: System and method for performing an action on a structure in
computer
-
generated data


Patent #5,969,705
: Message protocol for controlling a user interface from an
inactive application program



Patent #6,343,263
: Real
-
time signal processing system for serially transmitted
data


Patent #5,915,131
: Method and apparatus for handling I/O requests utilizing
separate programming interfaces to access separate I/O service


Patent #RE39,486
: Extensible, replaceable network component system


























http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple
-
vs
-
htc
-
a
-
patent
-
breakdown/



US International Trade
Commission ruled in favor of
Apple:


Patent 5,946,647
: System
and method for
performing an action on a
structure in computer
-
generated data


Who won?

Small victory for Apple


To Sum it Up

The
Consequences?

As a result, any
HTC phones with
this technology is
banned from
importing into US
starting April
19th, 2012


What's Apple Next Move?