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Why is Apple letting competitors copy the iPhone UI?
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Correct me if I'm wrong but iRiver hasn't released a phone with that UI yet? I'm sure Apple will release their legal hounds once a release date is set.
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yeah, i thought iphone pattented everything...
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I'm sure apple will be all over them once its released.
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Even if it slipped by, I'm not worried. It's like Hunt's Ketchup - same color, but not quite right.
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Originally Posted by mduell 
MSFT was forced to by 150 million in stock, agree to continue development of MS Office and other products for 5 years and provide Apple with licenses to all of their patents. Yeah Apple lost alright.  Those are the terms that we are aware of but it also appears that Apple has MSFT by the proverbial nuts because MSFT has been reluctant to enter into certain markets where Apple is dominating right now. It's almost as if they had their hands tied legally some how.
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Originally Posted by mduell
Then why bother patenting anything?
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Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES
Then why bother patenting anything?
That's the big debate right now.
I have read that many German companies stopped registering their patents because it basically makes knocking off the technology even easier for the Chinese.
They found it's safer to keep it a secret, rather than patenting it. 
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Originally Posted by turtle777
That's the big debate right now.
I have read that many German companies stopped registering their patents because it basically makes knocking off the technology even easier for the Chinese.
They found it's safer to keep it a secret, rather than patenting it.
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Must be hard keeping a secret when the product is on the market.
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Originally Posted by aristotles
MSFT was forced to by 150 million in stock...
That's more of a reward, rather than a punishment. I wish I had been forced to buy Apple stock in 1997.
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Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES
Then why bother patenting anything?
If I remember correctly, Steve highlighted that they patented multitouch in the iPhone announcement. How could they patent PalmOS-like GUI graphics?
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Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES
Must be hard keeping a secret when the product is on the market.
That depends. Often, the technology used is too complex to be readily visible and to be easily reverse-engineered (especially when a hard- and software combination is involved).
I'm not talking about simple design patents.
The disadvantage of the patent is that it describes in detail *how* this thing is supposed to work. So it's like handing over a blue-print.
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Originally Posted by The Godfather
If I remember correctly, Steve highlighted that they patented multitouch in the iPhone announcement. How could they patent PalmOS-like GUI graphics?
My guess is because the Palm copied the Newton?
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Originally Posted by mduell
Not really, MS paid an additional billion dollars to Apple off the table for the settlement of patents in 1997.
Furthermore, Apple learned a valuable lesson from this and has been extremely careful to patent and protect its intellectual properties and technological ideas.
The iPhone is carefully copyrighted and any company that even tries to market a clone will be hit hard by Apple.
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Originally Posted by voodoo
The iPhone is carefully copyrighted and any company that even tries to market a clone will be hit hard by Apple.
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Well lets see about that as that windows 7 link above copies just about everything from the iPhone.
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