Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Stephen C. Webster — Chinese knockoff artists patent iPhone 5 design before Apple: report


Oh, my! Intellectual property rights work both ways. If true, you can bet there is smoke coming out of ears at Apple.
Apple may have just lost a key battle in China before they even began to fight it.
A report by Chinese electronics site GizChina claims that a company called GooPhoneboasted that it has obtained a Chinese patent on the design of Apple’s iPhone 5, taken fromleaked photos of the device that were published online.
Their phone, the GooPhone i5, will reportedly ship with Android 4.0 and some pretty capable hardware, including a quad-core 1.4Ghz processor, an 8 mega-pixel camera, a high-def screen and even an Android desktop theme designed to look just like an iPhone’s characteristic layout.

GooPhone is one of many Chinese electronics knockoff-makers that have gotten especially good at their mimicry in recent years, but if it’s true that they’ve obtained a patent on the iPhone 5′s design before Apple even announced it, that could give them leverage in the courts — possibly even enough to challenge Apple’s right to sell its device in the country.
And while the GooPhone i5 is clearly an abuse of the Chinese patent system and a case of brazen theft of intellectual property, it’s not clear if Apple would overcome such a challenge, or if a victory would even shut GooPhone down.
The Raw Story
Chinese knockoff artists patent iPhone 5 design before Apple: report
Stephen C. Webster

7 comments:

Matt Franko said...

LOL! Tooooo good Tom.

Major_Freedom said...

Question for the site administrator:

Why is a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK IP address trying to connect to my PC when I visit this site?

The IP 65.89.18.120 is trying to connect. That's an IP belonging to the St. Louis Fed.

Who does Mike Norman really work for?

Tom Hickey said...

I guess the Fed's must be watching us, Major. We are pretty subversive over here. Be warned. They might think you are one of us. :o

Anonymous said...

Yes Tom,we are all except Major_Freedom and Bob Roddis involved in worldwide subverise Obama-UN-Fed plot to force out Bob and Major out their home´s in nice little village in Rothbardville!And of course we are paid of both bankster and unions :)!

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Matt Franko said...

Who.. does ..#2.. work.. for?!?!?

Major,

Roger has a link and employment graph from St Louis' FRED data base embedded in a post below... no worries.

But glad to see you are checking in every now and then bud!

rsp,

Anonymous said...

Major_Freedom,not the Fed!No way,it´s even worse!It´s wellknown that all we other commentators on this site that is not connected to Rothbardville are directly working for United Nations and delegates in their center for a more planned economy.Including Mike of course and Tom secretly work with on planning of enterprize of in agriculture and education, and Matt and Roger at in the UN-"Force" issues in general.But hush!Don´t tell anybody!It is top secret you know.