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Assistant Coach |
Apple settles iPod lawsuit for $10 million
Burst.com, which had charged Apple with using four of its patents in the iPod and iTunes, will get $10 million and will make most of its patents available to Apple Apple agreed to settle a patent dispute with Burst.com on Wednesday, ending two years of litigation. Under the agreement, Apple will pay Burst.com $10 million and get access to Burst.com's patent portfolio, with some exceptions, Burst.com said in a press release. Apple won't have access to four of Burst.com's current and pending patents, including three pending patents relating to DVR (digital video recorder) technology. Court costs, expenses, and attorney's fees will reduce the proceeds to Burst.com to $4.6 million. Burst agreed not to sue Apple over current or pending DVR patents, Burst.com said. Burst alleged that Apple infringed four patents for transmission of compressed audio and video files in iTunes, iLife, QuickTime, and the iPod. In 2004, Burst.com asked Apple to license some of its patents, saying they were at the heart of the iPod. In January 2006, Apple sued Burst.com in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking a judgment that the Burst.com patents were invalid and not infringed. Burst.com countersued in April 2006, alleging that Apple infringed four Burst.com patents. Burst.com settled a similar case with Microsoft for $60 million last year. Apple and Burst.com officials could not be reached for comment. see article for links _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." - Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945 |
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Head Coach |
Interesting... Invent something, patent it, leak it out on purpose, allow a company to claim discovery, allow them to make millions, sue them and win a multi-million settlements out of court. Cool way to make money without a whole lot of effort...
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Novel business model, huh?  Though I have seen crazy stuff in my industry as well, Tech. And nasty too._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about." - James Baldwin " ... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency specialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations with little notice in the national press. That allows the public to sustain its faith in a just America, while hard-nosed security and economic interests are still protected in secret. ": Robert Parry, investigative reporter and author "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." - Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945 |
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All-Conference |
People are so hyped over the IPOD products. They believe that Apple owns all of the technology that goes into making their products.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Say what is true, although it may be bitter and displeasing to people.”-Prophet Muhammed-PBUH "I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed more, if they had known they were slaves." - Harriet Tubman Up you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will. - Marcus Garvey If you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a person feel that he/she is inferior, you do not have to compel him/her to accept an inferior status, he/she will seek for it. If you make a person think he/she is a justly outcast, you do not have to order that person to the back door, that person will go without being told, and if there is no back door, the very nature of that person will demand one. - Carter G. Woodson If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started. - Marcus Garvey |
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