Now Apple faces Siri court room showdown Apple’s protracted iPad trademark battle with Proview appears to have opened the floodgates to further legal attacks in China, with Siri now being targeted in a law suit which could cost Cupertino in excess of $60 million to resolve. A Shanghai-based developer of voice assistant technology has filed against Apple and its local …
It's completely irrelevant. Apple tried to register the Chinese translation of "snow leopard" (xuebao) but couldn't. So it chose to go with the English name instead. Other than the fact that it's lubricous to claim someone might confuse a cleaning product with an operating system, you can't sue on the grounds that the translation of their product name is the same as yours. You could discover a huge numbers of infringements if you start playing that game - imagine what could happen if you started translating car model names for example.
wait, you mean China support Software Patents? I honestly though that they didn't.
any way, if anybody still haven't decided on which side they should take on the acceptance of Software Patents in the EU. I hope that you guys have taken sides after you have witness the mess those patents can cause.
the problem with the patent system is that your patent only apply in the jurisdiction of the office that granted you the patent. That is why companies have to register as many patents as they can in as many countries as they can. Unless there is a agreement between the different jurisdiction.
which is why some people are trying to stream line this process by having a common patent system plus a common court to look at the IP disputes. Which should cut down on the money spent registering patent and protection them.
this case is an example of how problematic the current system is. Even though Apple have a valid patent in the US (for the sake of argument, let us ignore the fact that it is a Software Patent and that I am against Software Patents) and have developed their product in the US, they might be found liable in China because they didn't register their patent with the Chinese Patent Office!
so, no, in this case Apple didn't steal, it is just that they didn't re-patent their patent under a different jurisdiction so that it could be protected their as well.
with all that being said: Say NO to Software Patent in the EU
So did the bbc get this wrong:
'HTC defeats Apple in swipe-to-unlock patent dispute'
""National patent laws thematically are very similar, but can be applied very differently.
"Not only are the tests different but also the evidence that can be introduced in different courts varies. If the Neonode wasn't released in the US it might not be able to be cited there.
"So the fact that Apple has lost this particular patent battle in the UK shouldn't mean it should be seen to have lost the global war.""
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18709232
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