You don’t really have to say “alleged” if they’ve gotten a judgement against them in a court.
Companies are considered innocent until…well, always I guess.
They might sue you into oblivion for one slip-up, better be vague always.
This is tech journalism, were you expecting integrity?
It’s “alleged” even though there’s a verdict against them? That can’t be right.
According to Bloomberg Law, Apple didn’t agree with the jury’s decision nor the damages and would appeal the verdict.
It’s alleged until the appeals stop, then it’s the final verdict
It’s generally accepted that a jury verdict is final at the moment it’s accepted by the trial court. So no “alleged” is needed. It’s not technically wrong to use it as a descriptive choice, since it’s now both factually established and still alleged, but it’s a bit it’s misleadingly tentative and not required.
It’s alleged until the appeals stop, then it’s the final verdict
It’s only alleged until the verdict drops. Whether or not they appeal, they are currently found guilty of the crime, ergo, not “alleged”.
The same can be said about any crime though, right? If you’re found guilty of murder, they drop the alleged and you’re just a murder. If you successfully appeal, then the title is dropped.
Apple is convicted of but alleges otherwise isn’t that difficult.
I believe the issue comes down to not needing to later retract things to change the statement, like yeah I know Apple was convicted of this and currently is “convicted” but if they appeal and win and in 5 years the article says “Apple convicted of X, must pay Y” you’d necessarily need a follow up article to correct it OR a retraction or whatever later.
Anyways. I bet that’s the reason, even if I agree that what you said should be the way it’s reported as it is currently the most accurate
So just more gutless journalism focused on appeasing corporate interest rather than reporting the truth? Shocking
No that’s a pretty solid twist of my words
I mean it’s exactly what you’ve said. They hem and haw and refuse to report news that could warrant a future retraction—which, by the way, is a stupid take, as news is temporal and current and what they’re reporting currently is in the interest of some unknown future verdict rather than the one before us now. So, given that they choose to report whatever is most favorable for future corporate interest despite damning current events, I have to conclude that it’s because journalists are prevented from doing their actual jobs by media conglomerates who will always side with capital. How does that twist your words exactly?
You infer malice, by twisting my words, which I’m not doing.
Sometimes bad things happen for reasons that aren’t malicious, understanding that will help.
Patenting the idea of a vibrator is so fucking stupid. I hate this country.
I’m not sure rounded corners or a certain kind of icons are much better.
Previous steam controller died cuz of a patent troll
Yeah, America should be more permissive towards megacorporations!
The current patent system greatly benefits the mega corporations. A small company could never make a phone because of the insane patent minefield owned by the mega corps.
Yeah they basically set up a mutually assured destruction patent stalemate with the existing big players. Any new entrant gets blown to high hell.
It looks to me like they’re lobbying to do the same with “AI” right now. They want to set up some stupid protectionist racket where it’ll be as impossible to use a cheap chatbot as it is to buy a cheap EV in the states.
For them, that may be pocket change.
From their last quarterly earnings report:
The Company posted quarterly revenue of $109.4 billion, up 16 percent year over year. Company gross margin was 50.1 percent
So the fine is less than a week of revenue.
Less than a week of revenue is not pocket change. If apple earned 2k a month, this fine would be 350
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Taction actually invented and sell this technology though, they aren’t just squatting on IP they bought. Not every patent lawsuit was filed by a troll.
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The original justification for patents at least had some logic to it. In exchange for progressing the state of the art and telling everyone else how your new invention works you get a period of market exclusivity. There was/is the option to not patent ideas and keep them as trade secrets instead, at the risk of others figuring out your idea.
Unfortunately for all of us 20 years is a really long time for exclusivity at our current tech development pace and in no way are patents consumable information for laypeople. The nonsense filings that get granted and all the lawyers involved have turned it into yet another tool only available to the wealthy.
The idea was giving inventor time to recoup their inventing costs and earn a wage, before copy cats swamped the market. The patent length is too long nowadays
patents should exist, but only for a year or two if you aren’t using them.
Before the Taction lawsuit, Apple was previously hit with another patent infringement lawsuit from Immersion. The company filed a complaint against Apple, also accusing it of patent violations with haptic tech found in iPhones, Apple Watches and MacBooks, but eventually settled for an undisclosed amount. More notably, Apple is in the midst of another patent infringement battle surrounding its Apple Watch and a feature that tracks blood-oxygen levels. In November, another federal jury ruled that Apple has to pay $634 million for violation patents from Masimo, but the tech giant is similarly planning to appeal this jury verdict.
Seems like a pattern here. Fuck Apple
Well patenttrolling ist a thing that is pretty common nowadays so as a big distributer you will have a lot of these lawsuits
| Apple is reportedly looking to appeal the jury verdict.
Yeah, no shit.
The Reuters article has this, which is interesting…
“Apple’s Taptic Engine is fundamentally different from Taction’s technology, which Taction’s own testing of Apple’s products confirmed during trial,” Apple said in response
But im not seeing lots of details on easy searches. You’re usually allowed to do something a different way though?
something to potentially look into is the docket
When will big companies lobby for patent law changes? I guess they still see enough value on the other end, with their own patents and lawsuits.
They fo, it’s just others benefit from the abuse
Big companies benefit the most from this
Parents and ads… The new business.
Remember when we used to patent innovations?
No
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