ankitaggarwal

The domain in question is sitting unused for past 11 years. Although, trademark is recent and you are holding the domain from very long time law should favour you. But because it is just sitting there without any use will make things complicated.

What I can understand from the facts you posted is they made a fair offer. They are is need of domain name and you are not using it at all. 11 years is a very long time and you are, willingly or unwillingly, blocking it for others. It will be good you not take this this to court and negotiate on a fair price.

Another alternative is, register the trademark in another category. In my country, there are 40 trademark categories. So making registration in any valid category should give you shield to protect the name.

Completely Agree with your view point. Why was it down voted?

I agree. Keeping the 'comments' part apart, I feel it was OK that this kind of story is shown on the frontpage. I visit google news multiple times in a day, but today HN was the first place I came to know about this incident. For the person living in that area, this can be a very useful info.

99% sure that this is a publicity stunt. I saw a very similar blog post last year too. And their sales jump 10 folds after that post.

In few hours news sites will start taking note of this, and without verifying the facts will start publishing the article. Mission accomplished.

Just wait, Google Glass is coming soon :)

Launching such missions does not mean that other areas are being ignored. Stop comparing two completely different things.

I am still skeptical about a successful Mars mission, but it will be good if we all be more positive about it.

+1 for Fastmail.

This is still a concept but would love to see someone implementing this: http://gadgetose.com/vibrating-ring-alarm-clock/

EDIT: another link with more details http://mmminimal.com/minimal-ring-alarm-clock-designed-for-c...

NearlyFreeSpeech. Costs me ~ $2 a month.

Thats a very good point. Most of my projects were rarely updated after first release. Building them was fun. Updates were mostly in cases when I received mails from people using it, and in some cases I realised a need of a feature (I use most of my creations).

Happy to see they came up with a beautiful, unique and slim design of laptop with a powerful configuration. Design is pretty different from macbooks, yet as elegant.

change in name servers take some time to propagate. Try to access it through some US proxy?

Strange to see that Whois data. Surely something wrong.

Though, this post has misleading title.

I don't think it works.

This is a screenshot from my iPad 2: http://i.imgur.com/eEzki.jpg

I moved back to Dropbox after a month of use. The only thing that bothered me was google takes a long time to polish its product. Why should I be paying during all this period.

There is no end to this debate. We both can write tons of explaination about each platform, but it doesn't matter. Both companies are here to make profits and they resolve their legal disputes like this. There is no other way.

And about this very article, it is just not correct. Invalidating patents take years. Article like this surface the internet just before any big apple event.

Thanks for clearing things up. What I am trying to say is, they had no other choice to send the message across that stop ripping off apple products. The patent they sued samsung over can be considered silly but what choice they had? I bet if this verdict was not given, next galaxy series would've been like iPhone 5. It was not about money, it was more about market position because what samsung was basically doing was placing ripped off versions of apple products in market. And i don't think this is a generic patent.

and this is what I call abuse of system. Just look at the patents mentioned in the link. Something that paul or its company was not even remotely associated. http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/27/microsoft-co-founder-paul...

So basically, apple falls in latter. Right?

No. But the design of their products. If you followed the trial, they told the entire process on how they reached the final design of iPhone. It took them years to make it perfect. Taking inspiration is different, and we all know what samsung did for staying in market. LEGALLY, apple had no choice but to take these silly looking patent to the courtroom. Now is the time when we will see real innovation.

I don't know why people build so much of hate for big corporates. Samsung is no different. If you see number of patents Samsung holds, you will be stunned. And most of them are something they never even implemented in their software remotely.

Sad. This is not a generic patent. It only seemed obvious now. Its not something that will stop innovation (as people scream about). A scrollbar implemented without rubber-band effect will do just fine. And why was this never implemented before anyways.

There is all this hype that "Apple is Bad because they sued Samsung". But considering everything, they had no other choice legally. They had to make a case on some grounds, and these 5-6 patents were the only patents they can sue on. What would've you done to protect ideas you spent years refining?