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Generalmore Karma return for Apple?membergavindon18 Mar '13 - 6:29 
THX sues apple over speaker tech
 
We all know about Apple's tendancy to get very broad patents and then sue anybody who competes with them into the poorhouse.
 
Taken from the page in the link above...
 

The three-page lawsuit [PDF], filed in San Jose federal court, is slim on details. It simply says that most Apple products "incorporate narrow-profile speaker units that output sound through a duct or aperture having a narrow dimension." The patent at issue was granted in 2008.
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GeneralRe: more Karma return for Apple?memberLloyd Atkinson18 Mar '13 - 7:34 
gavindon wrote:
It simply says that most Apple products "incorporate narrow-profile speaker units that output sound through a duct or aperture having a narrow dimension.

 

How on earth was this bullsh*t passed? That's the description for ANY set of earphones?!
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GeneralRe: more Karma return for Apple?membergavindon18 Mar '13 - 8:30 
well that's my point, its an awful lot like somebody putting a patent on a rectangle with rounded corners.. and then suing for it.
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Treat stressful situations like a dog, if you can't eat it, play with it or screw it, then just piss on it and walk away.
 
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GeneralRe: more Karma return for Apple?memberMark_Wallace18 Mar '13 - 20:47 
What goes around, comes around.
 
(But it has to be careful about the radius on the corners)
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