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A comment on Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galaxy Line of Phones and Tablets. Parent comment

Re:Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galaxy Line ... by azakai on Monday April 18, 2011 @06:33PM (#2461026)
> Any clue why Apple is beating around the bush and not going after the main source

Because Google is not actually doing anything infringing.

Google is writing code, but software patents in the US do not apply to abstract code. They apply to specific devices. So if a patent is being infringed, it is done by the phone manufacturers and shippers, and not Google.

If that sounds odd, then it is, but that is how the patent system currently works.

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Re:Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galaxy Line ... by warfangle on Monday April 18, 2011 @06:42PM (#2461041)
Also, the button layout that they complain about isn't necessarily stock android. It's a UI modification Samsung put on top of things. This is stick android 2.3, for example: http://www.itsagadget.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/...
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