Apple once offered Samsung a chance to license iOS patent

05 December, 2011
Apple offered to license their iOS scrolling patent to Samsung but the deal somehow fell through.

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  • 30 Dec 2011

Anonymous, 10 Dec 2011yes... me too? i hope samsung will not let apple people see... moreIts all bcuz android is opnsorce. Hav u heard opensource project appling 4 a patent?

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    • x8f
    • 14 Dec 2011

    Oflife, 05 Dec 2011MagSafe is the one thing Apple should license because it im... moreMagsafe is in no way a novel invention. eg. Trains have for many years used magnetics to secure or release couplings or electril cables. Its definitely not novel.

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      • Anonymous
      • nva
      • 13 Dec 2011

      It's okay, apple pays alrady millions of dollars to nokia in license money, they were sued by nokia and backed off and searched for a settlement and now they pay a monthly license payment

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        • Anonymous
        • wHr
        • 10 Dec 2011

        Tim, 07 Dec 2011I like the current Blue-Glow Samsung uses. It's a nice effect.yes... me too? i hope samsung will not let apple people see this thing or else they'll apply for a patent for this again... why not all other android phones manufacturers sue apple for the sliding down notification? its an android unique feature and now apple has this too in iOS 5... they should have make it a sliding up notification to be unique...lol

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          • srazzaq
          • KID
          • 07 Dec 2011

          Its stupidity. If I have patent for login form then I am applicable to sue millions of companies running online web applications. This has no end. This is like saying a car cannot have round staring wheel, a chair cannot have 4 legs cos they are all patented.

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            • Tim
            • Pxa
            • 07 Dec 2011

            I like the current Blue-Glow Samsung uses. It's a nice effect.

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              • Tomcheong
              • PIN
              • 06 Dec 2011

              who is the 1st register the pattern invented dialpad? or qwerty keyboard? haha lets sue all phone company. :)

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                • Emad
                • NhU
                • 06 Dec 2011

                i Dont respect a company that steal ideas like Samsung even if they used these ideas in a better way i believe a company like Samsung should innovate thier own ideas like Microsoft that managed to create an OS which has a completely different UI instead of stealing ideas from iPhone and put it in the Android

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                  • Anonymous
                  • mB7
                  • 06 Dec 2011

                  AnonD-977, 05 Dec 2011This is the patent that Samsung had to work around to avoid... moreThis are no fairy tails... in netherland sammy were sued for the design of the bounce so to say, not for the software... software patents are stupid and will totally slow down the possible improvements... Software has nothing to do with acrual intellectual property, like something real, what you can hold in your hands. Thing of an calculator... at some point nobody can produce a freakin calculator other than that one firm that patented the way a computer adds 2 numbers... than you have to find a stupid workaround, which will propably need 10x the resources to process the same stupid addition... software patents really are the worst thing, that could happen to europe.

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                    • danos
                    • YPH
                    • 06 Dec 2011

                    Apple are just afraid since other devices have far surpassed them in every way now. Now they are relying on their cult like ifanboys. But without Jobs around anymore, they have no leader....

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                      • 05 Dec 2011

                      Anonymous, 05 Dec 2011The scrolling thing should be android base function, should... morethat is my question too...........

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                        • 05 Dec 2011

                        Anonymous, 05 Dec 2011The scrolling thing should be android base function, should... moreNo, because Google is note making any money with Android itself.

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                          • 05 Dec 2011

                          Anonymous, 05 Dec 2011The scrolling thing should be android base function, should... morenah, it just samsung steal all the potential sell( of apple) by being better, cheaper prices, better specs, better softwares. and by steal i mean (earn).


                          BESIDE in term of design, and interface copied

                          THEY should sue XIAMO MI-ONE every icon look alike of check video on youtube;O you'll be amaze.

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                            • 05 Dec 2011

                            Anonymous, 05 Dec 2011Blame the Americans. Software patents don't exist in the re... moreThis is the patent that Samsung had to work around to avoid being banned in the Netherlands.

                            Quit with the fairy tales, your statement just isn't true.

                            Speaking of fairy tales WTF is this, from the article:-

                            "something tells me they [Apple] will be more interested in blocking the sales of the Samsung devices instead of licensing the patent."

                            Pure conjecture and a baseless opinion.

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                              • blattering
                              • 08s
                              • 05 Dec 2011

                              it begin to bothering me to quite a extend this article always turn on fanboy APPLE, i gonna stop reading you guys if this thing carry on.

                              , apple is nothing, and will always be, without all the manufacturers would agree and sell their pieces technology to being integrated in the "iphoone"

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                                • Anonymous
                                • 3ZQ
                                • 05 Dec 2011

                                Intellectual property is bull****.

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                                  • ikkie
                                  • nxX
                                  • 05 Dec 2011

                                  This article is a bit hit 'n miss. It's like me saying I had tea with Steve Jobs in Samsungs headquarters naked. It doesn't mean anything.

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                                    • Anonymous
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                                    • 05 Dec 2011

                                    The scrolling thing should be android base function, shouldn't they be sueing google instead of samsung?

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • sXj
                                      • 05 Dec 2011

                                      cjdelphi, 05 Dec 2011infact, throw out ALL patents for any software design, they... moreBlame the Americans. Software patents don't exist in the rest of the world and are a US thing.

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                                        • tyle
                                        • Rbq
                                        • 05 Dec 2011

                                        Apple wants to run U.S. by themselves....ur beaten apple so step up ur game...dont be suing companies here n there....u greedy people