“U.S. judge tosses Apple vs. Google
lawsuit over patents”
Dan Levine and Alexei Oreskovic
11/5/12
With
the ever growing popularity of smartphones, patent wars have been on the
rise. This article talks about how Apple
had a lawsuit against Google, as well as Motorola, stating that Motorola’s
licensing practices were unfair. Apple
believes that Google and partners that use the operating system known as
Android for their mobile services are a copy of their iOS smartphone software. There have been many ongoing battles between
cell phone servers about whose software is copying whose; however, Apple was
unsuccessful in the courts and the case was thrown out the morning of the
trial. Of course Google had no problem
with the trial being dropped and have stated that they are “interested in
reaching an agreement with Apple”.
I
believe that as technology continues to grow so will these “wars”. If everyone is using the latest technologies
out there then there is bound to be some overlap in these software systems. Although
being the first to have the newest and best operating system is of high
importance to these companies I don’t think it is something that our courts
need to be held up with. Like I said
there is only so much these companies can do before they all start looking the
same. However, I don’t understand how
the judge felt as though she was not legally allowed to hear Apple’s
claim. I honestly think that there are
much more important things to be worried about than what company is using the
same software as another. Soon there will be another software that we are all going
to be using and even more “wars” about who is copying who.
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