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nirvana on Aug 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Tim Cook memo: line by line

>Apple won a claim against Samsung for mimicking "bounce back" behavior

False. Patents don't cover features. Patents cover inventions. Apple won against samsung for copying apple's solution for how to implement a feature. Not for having that feature.

This misrepresentation trivializes the nature of the patents and is ideologically driven. Don't fall for it.

If you disagree, try reading the patent.

blaines on Aug 25, 2012 [–]

I'll check it out. I remember seeing a number of patents involved in the case, just haven't read them. My comment was certainly a generalization.

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