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Looks like the Polizei are finding their roots again. ]]>Mar 6th 2008 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/
Or maybe a Certain Mr. Steve Jobs gave the Polizei department new iMacs/iPods/iPhones. ]]>Mar 6th 2008 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 6th 2008 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 6th 2008 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 6th 2008 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 6th 2008 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/
(jk, don't get mad at me)]]>Mar 6th 2008 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 6th 2008 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/
The biggest reason we aren't seeing some great stuff in the market because of the Patent laws. ]]>Mar 6th 2008 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/
sure, sum ppl like me who bust our chops developing gud stuff, dnt get to earn our peanuts cos of cheapstakes like u who wudn know the difference btw ingenuineity and blind copying, even if it crawled up ur a** along side the pole of incompetancy( which on the other hand doesnt allow u to pay for wat u wanna use ) that is in to hold u straight enuf to write such posts.

makes me infer how important n satisfaying ur job must be.]]>Mar 6th 2008 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/
Just sayin'.
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To go to CeBIT, a company's army of lawyers must know the ins-and-outs of:

German Copyright Act
German Patent Act
German Design Act
German Semiconductor Protection Act
German trade Mark Act

...and then you of course must search all registered copyrights, patents, product designs, schematics of the 'topography of circuit boards', and trademarks of registered brands.

Of course, Germany is a signatory to all sorts of international agreements covering the same in other countries too - wonder how that affects thing?

This has gotten way out of hand. If iPhone knock-offs are the price to pay for loosening up our patent and copyright laws, I say so be it. Otherwise this entire process is becoming way to onerous for companies to deal with. ]]>Mar 6th 2008 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/If iPhone knock-offs are the price to pay for loosening up our patent and copyright laws...
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Except it's not about iPhne knock-offs at all (at least it doesn't seem to be from a design standpoint). From what they are saying it's mostly the good ol' tried-n-true mp3 and cd/dvd patents as well as the DVB patents (probably related to mp3 here too) covering lots of devices that implement these without license, not just audio.

If I'm not mistaken similar things happened last year too, tho this year it seems more severe, if memory serves.



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dudes, i thought there were techies here, its techies out thr doing the real work in developing products that u oogle over. n its this average joe techie who gets peanuts for it, he doesnt own the patent, its his megre christmas bonus that is hit. supposedly some one of ur kind. he ist d mariah carey or sean connery whose income is marginally hit

y dnt ppl like u go live in china? thr u ll have all the copies( of hard work n labour ) that u can lay ur hands on....]]>Mar 6th 2008 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 6th 2008 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 6th 2008 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 6th 2008 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 6th 2008 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 6th 2008 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/
In the US you'd at least have to prove the significant burden necessary to get an injunction or TRO.]]>Mar 6th 2008 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 6th 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/
It still requires an order from the prosecutor about which products to seize, based on what patents/copyrights were infringed upon.]]>Mar 6th 2008 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 6th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 6th 2008 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/
Damn Germans, they are just being too hard on the poor chinese trying to bring iRover, Opple, and Sorny to the masses.]]>Mar 6th 2008 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 6th 2008 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 7th 2008 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/cebit-crackdown-51-exhibitors-busted-for-patent-infringement/Mar 7th 2008 3:28AM