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Apple et Samsung : affrontement certes, mais des intérêts liés à préserver ! - iPhone 5s, 5c, iPad, iPod touch. Apple vs. Samsung: The Patent Wars, Explained – two infographics. Apple vs. Samsung: The Patent Wars, Explained – an infographic The intellectual property battle rages on between Apple and Samsung. In April 2011, Apple filed for patent infringement, claiming that Samsung copied its iPhone and iPad designs. Courts all over the world have taken on this battle. Europe and Australia, for instance, have ordered preliminary injunctions barring Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 from shelves — just in time for the holiday season.

Take a look through the infographic below to study the roots and progression of the Apple/Samsung lawsuit. Apple vs. Source: Mashable Patents are a source of constant lawsuits between large tech companies like Apple, Microsoft and Samsung. Last year, 107,792 patents were issued by the U.S. Here are some interesting points on the history, process and recent impacts of this important component of the tech ecosystem. Source: Mashable Berrie Pelser, Ber|Art Visual Design: Vergelijkbare berichten: Intellectual property: Patents against prosperity. AMERICA is still in denial, but among economists and wonks I think the hard truth is settling in: we're not as rich as we thought we were and our prospects for future high growth rates aren't looking so great. America's last best hope for breaking free from what Tyler Cowen has called "the great stagnation" is the discovery of new "disruptive" technologies that would transform the possibilities of economic production in the way the fossil-fuel-powered engine did.

As it stands, growth, such as it is, depends largely on many thousands of small innovations increasing efficiency incrementally along many thousands of margins. Innovation and invention is the key to continuing gains in prosperity. Zero-sum "win the future" rhetoric notwithstanding, it doesn't much matter whether the advances in new technology occur in China, India or America. Nevertheless, it remains that America is the world's leader in technical invention, and continues to attract many of the world's most inventive minds. Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system “dysfunctional”

Intellectual property: Patents against prosperity. American law is patent nonsense. iPhone design: Documents from the Samsung trial reveal more than ever about Apple’s secretive design process. Photograph by Tony Avelar/AFP. Farhad Manjoo is a technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the author of True Enough. Follow Like many of Apple’s inventions, the iPhone began not with a vision, but with a problem. By 2005, the iPod had eclipsed the Mac as Apple’s largest source of revenue, but the music player that rescued Apple from the brink now faced a looming threat: The cellphone. Everyone carried a phone, and if phone companies figured out a way to make playing music easy and fun, “that could render the iPod unnecessary,” Steve Jobs once warned Apple’s board, according to Walter Isaacson’s biography. Fortunately for Apple, most phones on the market sucked.

That was because most phones were hobbled by a basic problem—they didn’t have a good method for input. This is the story of how Apple reinvented the phone. Put it all together and you get remarkable story about a device that, under the normal rules of business, should not have been invented. Apple and Samsung lock horns over patents.