Thesepatent suit storiesare basically madlibs anyway , sowhat the hell : ST CLAIRINTELLECTUAL PROPERTYCONSULTANTS has sued APPLE COMPUTER over CAMERA TECHNOLOGY in the IPHONE . They have a history of win LAWSUITS , and BUTT FARTS .
The case bears a lot of the stamps of empty letters patent trollery , from the international - the - diligence complainant company to the oddly late filing . ( The iPhone has been out for a match year now , and it ’s had a camera the whole time . ) But these guys are n’t bullshitting : they have a account of win similar suit against major camera maufacturers , include Sony , which paid them $ 25 grand in 2001 , and Canon , which paid them $ 34 m in damages in 2003 . They ’ve go into into licensing agreements with “ many ” of the companies they ’ve process , which include the likes of Samsung , Nokia and Nikon . So , what ’s their secret ? Patents like this :
Digital cameras , have you ever heard of them ?
To have a patent as fundamental as this — among others , including a patent on digital shutter button , and one for computer memory and display methods for digital images — awarded in the early 90 and upheld by the courts is nothing to barrack at . When this thing in the end kick off — the scheduling conference is n’t until January , so it ’ll probably be a few months before we see pyrotechnic — it’ll be one to watch , since companies who put down in court with Apple have a tendency to — one sec — DIE HORRIBLY . There . [ LoopinSight , specific patent listhere ]
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