http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/ Engadget Comments for Apple, MONEC in lawsuit over iPhone e-book apps http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Apple should get this dismissed.]]>Mar 24th 2009 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/
Furniture. He's a carpenter.]]>Mar 24th 2009 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/>describes a light-weight, touchscreen electronic device that has the "dimensions such that >>[...] approximately one page of a book can be illustrated at normal size...

Already flunks this test, one page at normal size.

]]>Mar 24th 2009 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/B Format paperbacks are 130 mm x 198mm (5.12" x 7.8"),
C Format (trade paperbacks) are 135 mm x 216mm (5.32" x 8.51")

Choose one :)
I just googled "Standard size paperback. Im pretty sure that the A size is the "normal" US book size.]]>Mar 24th 2009 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/
Sitll, it's a ridiculous lawsuit by yet another patent troll that should be tossed out of court immediately, post-haste.]]>Mar 24th 2009 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.swobo.com/htatbl/archives/2009/03/mondays_slice_of_unadulterated.html]]>Mar 25th 2009 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/
My bet is that this company has been asking for royalties but Apple never answered them. Based on the patent, they do have all the rights to sue Apple. But it's true that they could also sue Amazon for their Kindle (although that has not been released outside of the US -> It's a Swiss company).]]>Mar 24th 2009 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/
Their argument appears to have as many holes as their cheese.


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What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:

a housing, a display, an input device, a microprocessor, a control arrangement device, a memory, a power source, at least one interface operable to allow data exchange with at least one peripheral device, the data exchange being a receiving and storing of data received from the at least one peripheral device, wherein:

said display has dimensions such that one page of a book can be displayed at a normal size;

said housing is a unitary flat and frame shape and is provided with said display integrated therein; and

said input device is operable to control said electronic device and said input device is provided as a touch-screen in said display; and

a station operable to receive and send signals by way of a radio network, said station being provided in said housing, wherein provided in said station is at least one receiving module operable to receive a GSM chip or an SIM chip, and at least one receiving module for the radio network, wherein:

said station is operable to exchange signals byway of at least one of a Natel-C telephone radio network, Natel-D telephone radio network, GSM, GPRS, EDGE system, UMTS, Bluetooth, telephone cable radio network, local radio network, and satellite network, by which electronic data can be exchanged and visualized on said display.

2. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein integrated in said housing is a telephone device with a loudspeaker and a microphone or an interface for a connection to headphones operable to facilitate telephoning by way of the radio network.

3. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein integrated in said housing is a video camera and an evaluation unit operable for transmission of picture signals by said station to facilitate visualization of the user for video conferencing.

4. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said housing has external dimensions of between 12.times.18 cm and 24.times.32 cm and a height of approximately 1 to 3 cm.

5. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said housing is made synthetic material and only one on/off switch is provided.

6. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said memory is only one solid memory integrated in said housing.

7. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an electronic speaker with recognition of text passages.

8. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said power source is formed by a storage battery which can be charged by a solar cell and/or by main current via a connectable battery charger.

9. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said station is designed as a multiband which facilitates a data exchange from several local and supraregional areas of radio networks.

10. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising additional input devices which operate by way of at least one of speech control, acoustic signals, optical signals, brain currents, proximity switches, and switches which can be activated mechanically.

11. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein electronic data can be loaded by the peripheral device or by the radio network.

12. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said electronic device is an electronic book.

13. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said display is an LCD display.]]>Mar 24th 2009 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/
http://www.moneyhouse.ch/p/h/Santner/Paul/%25F6sterreichischer%2BStaatsangeh%25F6riger/Fehraltorf/index.htm

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.....brainwaves O.o ]]>Mar 24th 2009 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/
And then when that time comes i will spring from the shadows with a gratuitous "A-HA!" and have my process servant hand them a subpoena.. get rich, do nothing...

Personally, there's a big difference between
"electronic book" and "electronic book that can communicate with 10 different radio frequencies, including brain currents, oh and its also a phone and pda, and..." you get my point.

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I am going to patent "some sort of device, that can work somehow, that does things, roughly the size of my hand" this patent somehow covers multiple things.

The patent simply claims over any device that has a flat housing, display, touchscreen input, microprossor, control arrangement, memory, power source, an interface to allow data exchange, GSM or SIM chip with at least one recieving module and the only unique usage of the device is "said display has dimensions such that one page of a book can be displayed at a normal size" surely this claim is invalid because books can vary in size so massively and it is not defined formally what they class as normal size, and if its allowed they can reasonably class any large screened mobile device that can read text as infringing this patent. It doesn't make claims for ebooks, simply that it can display a page of a book at a normal size.

It does later on claims the devices external dimensions of between 12.times.18 cm and 24.times.32 cm and a height of approximately 1 to 3 cm. which are larger than the iPhones but as far as I know the way its worded that isn't the definition, that's extensions to the original claim which includes things like videoconferencing for such a device, be made of synthetic material with only 1 on/off button and control via brain currents.

I can't wait till my next daydream and I will write it in a patent and sue the first person to get near it!

fail fail fail fail]]>Mar 24th 2009 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/David Lee Roth wrote a book.
I find that amazing.]]>Mar 24th 2009 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 24th 2009 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/Mar 25th 2009 1:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/apple-monec-in-lawsuit-over-e-book-apps/
Don't get me wrong I am not saying that this companies patent has any validity for a law suit, but like I said before Apple is probably the worlds biggest patent things we have no intention of manufacturing ever culprits. If Steve Jobs blows his nose and whats in the napkin looks like it could be patented he does it. I for one am glad someone had the jewels to finally bring the fact that Apple is actively seeking a Monopoly! They are their business model has them controling every aspect of any of their devices. I have a simple example that proves it. They are in a suit with Psystar because Apple violently holds the view that no one what so ever should make any device to run their software, but they in turn make hardware and software to allow the end user of their computers to run Windows. This is hypocritical! This proves Apples intentions on muscling out all competition at all costs. They underhandedly paid a little more to buy up a certain manufactures stock of memory chips. There's a reason Apple die hards have a rep for being well snobbish (to remain noninflammatory). It's because Steve Jobs has that attitude it's the fundamental reason behind the split up way back when between him and you know who. Steve Jobs did not think everyone deserved a computer. This isn't a new idea to try and keep others from attaining the knowledge that only they and a select few hold. It is exampled by the fact that China had production line style factories centuries ago, but all the technology was lost until dug up recently. They did not want to share their intellectual property. Too many people do it everyday. One guy doesn't tell anyone how he always manages to own everyone in a halo free for all. Why? because he feels if he shares his secrete techniques that he won't own everyone all the time, but he fails to realize that sharing said knowledge will make is competition better and thus make him better by having to work a little harder.

Apple wants everyone to use their products because "They just work" and that is a lie. The iPhone is still very buggy. Don't get me wrong I love my 3G, but it doesn't "Just work" I understand the view point that Jailbreaking makes pirating more available, but One does not need to jailbreak to take advantage of pirated apps. If you manually add them to iTunes, iTunes will sync them to your device. Yet Apple wants Jailbreaking to be illegal. When it's the only way to get what other smart phones have and every iPhone owner wants. Hence the new 3.0 firmware to be released. I used to lose a lot of data when my iPhone would just spaz out as they are prone to do needing a restore. Well there went all my app data. No I put an end to that by jailbreaking my device and being able to not only back up all my data on the device, but I could then get into my device and manually back up all my data. I believe all devs should be paid for their work, and even deserve to set a price they feel the application is worth. I do not prescribe to the whack ideology that pirated apps are so people can try them out before they buy, or that the app was overpriced and therefore deserved to be pirated. That is a juvenile and entitlement (With NO bounds for deserving the entitlement) attitude. Which is a huge reason for the poor state of the world today, because it is the result of poor upbringing and a lack of instilled values, but I digress.

Stop defending Apple for something that they in turn do everyday, just because you love them and admire their flashy presentation. Step back and take a real hard look, because when and if Apple is successful in their ultimate business model we will all be paying a HE double hockey stick lot more for their products, because there will be no one else to get any such hardware from. Saying the patent system is failed and undermines creativity pales in comparison with what a MONOPOLY does for creativity and diversity. If you took the time to write out an idea in depth, and then produce detailed drawings of what ever would carry out those ideas, and someone came along and made that product you would feel that you deserved to be compensated for it. How come people are so quick to defend one entity over another, just because they own a device or product manufactured by that entity. People today are so hypocritical in that they just can't step out of their own skin for half a second to think about the other guy.

I wish Psystar all the best and that they finally out the fact that Apple is most definitely seeking a MONOPOLY. They are taking it to the extent of saying what you can and can not do with your property. In Apples view even though you paid for your iPhone you do not have the right to do with it as you please. That mentality is akin to a dictatorship. Do you all really want someone else making all your decisions for you? Granted 93% of the world population really truly honestly do not need to be making any decisions at all, but it's their right to make decisions be they good or bad. So really people stop being so quick to stone anyone that brings suit against Apple. They make good products, but they do not deserve your worship. I mean really they make iPod Touch user pay for firmware upgrades! How screwed up is that. Hey we neglected to add these features or fix these bugs and close these security holes, but you should pay us to take advantage of the fact that we finally got off our duffs and implemented the necessary codes to rectify the situation, but we don't feel you deserve it. Unless you fork over some more cash. That's akin to being charged for the air you breath, or charging a baby to learn things as is explores it's world.

Wake up people you are being used and misstreated, and the sad part is that you are begging for more. If your wives were charging you for affection you would be outraged. If your husbands were nice to everyone but you unless you paid him to be, you would be outraged. It's called Stockholm syndrome people! ]]>Mar 28th 2009 2:46AM