專利權之戰：MS 阻殺 Apple iPod 再一招

小酒蟲

工商時報    06/國際經濟           2005/08/13

iPod部分專利 微軟捷足先登 蘋果懊惱，力圖翻案，否則就得向微軟支付權利金

彭博社週五報導，美國蘋果電腦公司的iPod雖然高居美國數位音樂播放機銷售榜首，但蘋果電腦就iPod部分科技所提出的專利申請，卻在上個月遭美國主管專利的機關退回，原因是微軟電腦已捷足先登，搶先五個月提出相類似的專利申請。報導指出，蘋果十分懊惱，力圖翻案，否則就將向微軟支付權利金，而這是蘋果絕對無法接受的。

美國專利商標局的文件顯示，微軟的動作比蘋果早了五個月。蘋果執行長賈伯斯及其他主管在二○○二年十月所提出的申請案，因而在上個月遭到退回。蘋果電腦將就這項退回其申請案的決議提出上訴，以避免還必須為賣出去的iPod付權利金給微軟。

[ Last edited by 小酒蟲 on 2005-8-14 at 18:03 ]

小酒蟲

Originally posted by S.Snake at 2005-8-14 18:04:
微軟最近生不出新OS所以要找蘋果咬一口？

麻煩看一下專利申請日期。B)

Originally posted by achen at 2005-8-14 18:11:
Apple 欲申請專利的這 "部分科技" 實際的內容是什麼?

操作介面....

http://news.com.com/Microsoft%2C ... 5.html?tag=pulse.tb

In a ruling issued last month, a patent examiner rejected Apple's attempt to patent some of the user interface concepts behind the popular digital music player, noting that Microsoft developer John Platt filed for similar claims five months before Apple did.

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而且 MS 也不是最近才想咬，它很早就介入 Apple 的電腦市場了。不然你把 Office for MAC 拿掉、把 IE for MAC 拿掉、再把 MSN Messenger for MAC 拿掉....普通 MAC 使用者人數會當場大減，更別提當年注入資金投資 Apple 的事了。

[ Last edited by 小酒蟲 on 2005-8-14 at 18:51 ]

小酒蟲

那你大概也不知道數位相機上的「寫入記憶卡」這個概念也是有專利的，所有廠商每賣出一台數位相機，都要付一筆權利金給某間公司。B)B)B)

小酒蟲

Originally posted by liaolc at 2005-8-14 19:21:
卡俗嗎?

忘記那公司的名字了，不過 DPReview.com 之前有過它的報導，印象中如 SONY 一年就要支付上千萬美金的「專利使用費」。

小酒蟲

那要先問問 XEROX。

[ Last edited by 小酒蟲 on 2005-8-20 at 18:33 ]

小酒蟲

Originally posted by 小酒蟲 at 2005-8-14 19:08:
那你大概也不知道數位相機上的「寫入記憶卡」這個概念也是有專利的，所有廠商每賣出一台數位相機，都要付一筆權利金給某間公司。B)B)B)

找到了，這專利是關於「影像資料存取」；SONY 為此付出了四千萬美金，而其它如 CANON、SANYO、KODAK 等也因而付出了數千萬美金的使用費。

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0411/04112902sonyampex.asp
Sony has settled with Ampex for $40 million over patent litigation which relates to digital still and digital video cameras as well as PDAs. Back in July this year (2004) Ampex announced that it was aiming to block Sony from importing and selling products in the US which contained Ampex's intellectual property. Ampex has already come to license agreements with Canon, Sanyo and Kodak worth tens of millions of dollars. Ampex currently has outstanding litigation against Kodak for violation of the same patents. It looks as though Ampex will come out from these agreements with ongoing royalty payments too. Its patents related to "image storage and retrieval".