Apple on Software Patents



Apple used patents for deterrence and than litigation against Linux-powered products. Here is some of the early history.

2008

 * Apple’s Latest Software Patent Headaches, Disregard for Standards
 * Nokia, Apple, Microsoft, and Other Software Patent Brats

2009

 * Apple’s Third Offense Against Linux-powered Palm Gadgets
 * How Microsoft (and Apple) Wants to Own GNU/Linux, in the ‘Intellectual’ Sense
 * Patents Roundup: Nokia and Apple Cross Swords, British Patent System Becomes Form of Tax, Israel Besieged by Software Patents
 * Apple’s, Microsoft’s and the Gates Foundation’s Games with Intellectual Monopolies
 * Nokia Expands Patent Strike Against Apple
 * Familiar Villains: Apple and Blackboard Attack Linux/Free Software Again
 * Novell Collects Software Patents While Apple Attacks Linux with Patents

2010

 * Novell is Still Fishing for Software Patents, Microsoft and Apple Do Patent Evils
 * Apple Does Not Support Standards; Neither Does Microsoft
 * Let’s Not Forget Apple’s Patent Threat to Linux
 * Patents Roundup: Several Defeats for Bad Types of Patents, Apple Risks Embargo, and Microsoft Lobbies Europe Intensely

2013

 * All Your Rectangles Are Not Apple’s

2015

 * Apple Makes Use of Alice v. CLS Bank (Alice/§101) to Invalidate Software Patents, But ITC Pretends Nothing Happened

Also see: Apple vs HTC