Apples legal rampage comes to an end

Sykk

A tiny Spanish tablet developer has accomplished what Samsung could not.



Perhaps it's opposite day in the international court system, but it turns out that Apple isn't invulnerable in courts of law after all. After a nearly unbroken string of humiliating legal victories over Samsung, it seems Apple has finally met its courthouse match: a tiny Spanish tablet maker called Nuevas Tecnologias. A Spanish Judge in the city of Quart de Poblet has now overturned a previous decision granting an injunction against Nuevas Tecnologias have have dismissed commercial and criminal charges brought against them by apple.

At issue is Nuevas Tecnologias' NK-T slate, accused by Apple of (of course) infringing on the iPad design. Apple first filed their claim in 2010, and were quickly granted a preliminary injunction that restricted sales of NK-T to only 200 units. At the time Apple received their preliminary ruling, Spanish customs agents seized China-bound shipments of Nuevas Tecnologias tablets. This led to N.T. being briefly listed on an EU list of known technology pirates, at which point Apple outrageously filed additional criminal charges. Now that the case has been thrown out, Nuevas Tecnologias is suing to recoup court costs and better still, pursuing anti-trust charges for what they allege - quite rightly from appearances - is a pattern of anticompetitive behavior by Apple.

Nuevas Tecnologias have posted a statement (in Castilian Spanish) posted to the company blog saying in part that "We are a small company like many others. In these times of crisis we [are] trying to get ahead, and it seems grossly unfair that a company the caliber of Apple has to use its dominant influence".

Delighted to see this.. As soon as any tablet maker come into the market they get sued and sued by these **** until they're out of business.

Hope they get a massive payout.

danniemcq

some of these patent lawsuits are crazy,

apple are trying to get the swipe to unlock action patented but only with a guideline or somthing so your own design or no line showing where to slide is ok.

unless microsoft get their way!

Orando Broom

My Splapple IPlad will be released for Christmas.

danniemcq

Make sure you make it easy to use/hold with one hand cause thats the only use i see for tablets!

--Kaiser--

Hilarious. Nearly everything Apple has done was stolen from other companies

Biggins

Apple is having its own problems with its latest phone, the 4S.

Apple has admitted that a bug in the latest iPhone phone software was causing issues to its battery life. The company had to respond to growing complaints spreading on the internet that the latest version of its bestselling 4S mobile phone has very limited battery life, running down within a few hours of being fully charged.

Apple blamed the problem on a bug with its new software for mobiles, iOS 5, which is standard on the latest iPhones but which has been downloaded by many owners of iPad tablets and older versions of the iPhone.

Opps!

danniemcq

Biggins wrote: »

Apple is having its own problems with its latest phone, the 4S.

Apple has admitted that a bug in the latest iPhone phone software was causing issues to its battery life. The company had to respond to growing complaints spreading on the internet that the latest version of its bestselling 4S mobile phone has very limited battery life, running down within a few hours of being fully charged.

Apple blamed the problem on a bug with its new software for mobiles, iOS 5, which is standard on the latest iPhones but which has been downloaded by many owners of iPad tablets and older versions of the iPhone.

Opps!

actually the official line was bugs so more than one but they won't say!

i have yet to use or see a product that is actually as good as people make out. But then again i hate the apple cult so i may be biased!

Biggins

danniemcq wrote: »

actually the official line was bugs so more than one but they won't say!

They admitted it was a bug in their software. The Times (England) did a story on it.

“A small number of customers have reported lower than expected battery life on iOS 5 devices,” Apple said in a statement. “We have found a few bugs that are affecting battery life and we will release a software update to address those in a few weeks.”

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/technology/article3215049.ece

danniemcq

huh, this week in tech were on about it yesterday on their podcast.

some people were saying that it was to do with contacts, they seemed to be duplicated but hidden and constantly trying to locate them in the real world

pajunior

Legal systems really need to examine the patent/copyright laws. They are doing the exact opposite to what they are intended for and are stifling innovation.

biko

Apple give Xerox back their intellectual property!

Welruc

Biggins wrote: »

Apple is having its own problems with its latest phone, the 4S.

Apple has admitted that a bug in the latest iPhone phone software was causing issues to its battery life. The company had to respond to growing complaints spreading on the internet that the latest version of its bestselling 4S mobile phone has very limited battery life, running down within a few hours of being fully charged.

Opps!

I didn't think the battery life on the iphones could get any worse!!!

Blazer

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Hilarious. Nearly everything Apple has done was stolen from other companies

Don't forget to include Google +Microsoft+Oracle and pretty much every other company out there in your narrow statement.