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A big point seems to be that people buy neither an iPhone nor a Galaxy Nexus specifically for their search abilities, regardless of how much Apple wanted to advertise Siri in court.



  > A big point seems to be that people buy neither an iPhone nor a Galaxy Nexus specifically for their search abilities
I agree.

Assume infringement of something, lets say a patented chemical in particular competitors dog food. If the court claims it is not a 'causal nexus' (people don't buy the dog food for the chemical), and that if preventing the competitor from selling the dogfood was not appropriate (no causal nexus) then I guess the remaining "relief" would be entirely monetary?

If the infringement continued after a finding, maybe it would become willful at some point meaning higher fines?

  > , regardless of how much Apple wanted to advertise Siri in court.
I don't see how this portion of your comment is relevant.


Because Siri is Apple's answer to search on an iPhone, or at least thats's how I interpreted it.


iOS has had unified search prior to Siri. (iOS 3)


Yes but search is Google (and android's) defining feature. You could make the argument that Siri is the same for iOS.


Not really. Siri wasn't introduced until iOS 5, and even then, would only run on one version of the 3 (3GS/4/4S) iPhones that could run iOS 5.




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