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Apple Sued due to iPhone having a Camera

ImperialX · 2009-12-06T06:11:52-01:00

Seriously, it appears that nothing changes over at Apple Legal. Yet again they are being sued, this time by a company called St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants. They claim that Apple's iPhone infringes on four digital camera patents that the company holds. The four include the †˜459, †˜219, †˜010 and †˜899 patents. 459: Take image contained within lens and store in some type of memory. 219: Display the picture that will be taken in some type of display window. 010: Push button in order to capture image. 899: Make images contained within some type of memory and make them viewable in some sort of digital camera roll. I don't know much about law, but this seems utterly ridiculous. What I don't understand is how these even become patents in the first place. You'd think that something like this could be used against any number of digital photography products. It appears St. Clair has been playing this game of patent infringement lawsuit for quite some time. In 2001, it sued Sony for infringing these same patents and won a $25 million judgement against the company. In 2003, it sued Canon and was awarded $34 million in damages. This just absolutely blows my mind. Not only are they playing this ridiculous game, they are actually winning! WTF!? Now it's Apple's turn. Will they pay up or fight for the sake of justice? Discuss below. Via. MacWorld, TUAW SH Mirror

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Zenith

15 years ago

TehMikuruSlave wrote...

This company is full of geniuses. By making such broad patents, they get to fuck over any digital camera companies. Free money. I support them.

skullboysz

15 years ago

if it can patent like at artical 10 then i want to patent water.

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