Apple Drops 'Thermonuclear' Patent Bombshell.

[mongers]

Apple drops 'thermonuclear' patent bombshell

What Steve Jobs threatened, Tim Cook delivers

By Rik Myslewski • In Law • At 05:00 GMT 1st April 2012

Apple has launched a new patent assault on its competitors, one that appears to unleash the nukes that Steve Jobs reportedly told his biographer Walter Isaacson he was going to drop on Google's Android.

"I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product," the late Apple cofounder told the author of the überpopular authorized biography Steve Jobs in a 2010 interview. "I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

Apple's legal team has now filed a patent-infringement lawsuit that hurls a potentially Edward Teller–level legal challenge at its smartphone and tablet competitors. Or, at minimum, one that opens up a massively profitable licensing opportunity for Cupertino.

Apple's SVP and general counsel Bruce Sewell, when announcing the sweeping lawsuit in a rare Saturday call with reporters and analysts, cited not his late boss, Steve Jobs, but his current one, Tim Cook. "As Tim said in 2009," Sewell reminded us, "'We like competition as long as they don't rip off our IP. And if they do, we will go after anyone who does. We are ready to suit up and go against anyone'."

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Rest of article here:
http://m.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/01/apple_patent/

[Syt]

Patent #1,042,012

[Tamas]

Okay so:

-they refuse to call iPhone 5 by it's name
-they refuse to call iPad 3 by it's name
-they announced dividends and stock buy back
-they go all in in the Patent Wars

Are we seeing just about the top of Apple and it's stock price?

[Barrister]

Okay so:

-they refuse to call iPhone 5 by it's name
-they refuse to call iPad 3 by it's name
-they announced dividends and stock buy back
-they go all in in the Patent Wars

Are we seeing just about the top of Apple and it's stock price?

Take another look at Mongers link.

[Martinus]

It took a gay guy at the helm to take Apple to the dark side.

[DontSayBanana]

I would have expected the Euros to pick up on this before the Americans.  Syt certainly got it.

[Tamas]

Okay so:

-they refuse to call iPhone 5 by it's name
-they refuse to call iPad 3 by it's name
-they announced dividends and stock buy back
-they go all in in the Patent Wars

Are we seeing just about the top of Apple and it's stock price?

Take another look at Mongers link.

[grumbler]

Great story.  Crappy synopsis here, but a great story - well-written, complete, and yet concise.  I take back my assertion that all British journalists are hacks.

[garbon]

Great story.  Crappy synopsis here, but a great story - well-written, complete, and yet concise.  I take back my assertion that all British journalists are hacks.

[mongers]

Great story.  Crappy synopsis here, but a great story - well-written, complete, and yet concise.  I take back my assertion that all British journalists are hacks.

Weird, I exactly quoted the article's title as the thread title and the synopsis was a direct and full quote of the article up to the crucial give away, that Syt noted.

Oh I forgot, it's just Grumbler being his usual snide self. That's the beauty of having him on the ignore list, I never normally see his trolling.   

[garbon]

Great story.  Crappy synopsis here, but a great story - well-written, complete, and yet concise.  I take back my assertion that all British journalists are hacks.

Weird, I exactly quoted the article's title as the thread title and the synopsis was a direct and full quote of the article up to the crucial give away, that Syt noted.

Oh I forgot, it's just Grumbler being his usual snide self. That's the beauty of having him on the ignore list, I never normally see his trolling.   

It is a bit obnoxious to make people click on a link before getting to the truth of a story. But then, not sure why grumbler called you out, as it is your MO to have misleading titles, so misleading summaries aren't so far off.

[Grey Fox]

IP law. Makes Tax law look the height of morality.

[Neil]

See, what's funny about this is that it's actually plausible.  I wouldn't put it past Apple to pull something like this.

[Josquius]

Yeah, what Neil says. I totally wouldn't put this past apple.

[Razgovory]

See, what's funny about this is that it's actually plausible.  I wouldn't put it past Apple to pull something like this.

I thought these computer and cell phone companies did this to one another all the time.