Apple Sued Over OS X Quick Boot 196
An anonymous reader writes "With a patent originally owned by LG in tow, a Florida based company called Operating Systems Solutions LLC recently filed suit against Apple claiming that OS X's use of quick booting infringes the aforementioned patent."
The company in question is a bit suspicious — having formed very recently — and so others are speculating it was created for a proxy battle against Apple by LG.
These patent lawsuits are getting out of hand. (Score:4, Informative)
These patent lawsuits are getting out of hand.
Everyone is suing everyone else, minimal innovation is happening and when it does it's from some upstart who gets buried the moment it makes a press release.
Re:These patent lawsuits are getting out of hand. (Score:3, Informative)
Taste of their own medicine? I take it you completely forgot about Nokia suing them, and Kodak before that? Or how about the company that sued them on the basis of the iPod's playlist?
To say that "Apple started it!" is extremely childish and naive.
Re:Just sayin' (Score:3, Informative)
He is probably referring to this [arstechnica.com].
Re:Prior art? (Score:5, Informative)
I think this is the info you are hinting at. the patent in question specifically mentions config.sys and auto exec.bat, as well as POST processes.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/08/apple_sued_over_mac_x_fast_boot/ [theregister.co.uk]
Re:These patent lawsuits are getting out of hand. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:These patent lawsuits are getting out of hand. (Score:3, Informative)
"An official press release showing an image of the device appeared on January 18, 2007"
"The first iPhone was unveiled by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007"
Kodak isnt a bad player (Score:4, Informative)
They have been researching digital cameras since the 1970s and have like 1000 patents relating to digital cameras.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sasson [wikipedia.org]
They literally the invented digital still camera and got a patent for it in 1978
Their patents have been tested in court. However Kodak seems to have no problems licensing its patents. Kodak
doesnt pursue frivolous or overly broad claims. Kodak actually invented most of the digital camera technology existing today
and licenses it to everybody.
Apple tried to claim a patent claim against kodak and got bitchslapped in May.
http://www.toledoblade.com/Courts/2011/05/16/Apple-loses-round-in-digital-camera-patent-dispute-with-Eastman-Kodak.html [toledoblade.com]