The patent wars that erupted recently between Apple and, well, everybody else were notched up another gear today (that’s up into 6th!) by the filing of a patent infringement filing infringement patent suit, filed by Apple against Samsung.
Apple spokesman-woman Merrill Bankbum, who was wearing a blue twin-set and pearls made the claim in court today, which was hotly rebuffed by Samsung spokesbot Rordi Somesang, who was wearing a patent suit.
Samsung’s Somesang help up Apple’s 1,834 page, 42,324 clause infringement claims and said that the Samsung board rejected 42,322 of the 42,324 clauses while asking for clarity on clause 73 and pointing out that printer ink had stopped half way through clause 32,356, just after the word ‘balls’.
The judge said the hearing would likely continue for another 3 months, but that 15 minutes into the first day and he was already confused.
Within hours, the judge was then literally slapped with a subpoena injunction mandate demand claiming trademark infringement by Confused.com.
An industry spokesperson (though we’re not sure what industry) said that the situation in electronics manufacture was now so grave that almost every device contained components that infringed someone else’s patent, and that almost everything we owned was now subject to an infringement claim by almost every other company seeking to defend their products to better serve their customers, who are also us.
He cited the case of his aunt who had laser eye treatment where the manufacturer of the equipment used had been challenged and lost an infringement claim, and whereupon his aunt subsequently had her eyeballs snatched out by a patent lawyer in Kensington High Street.
In another incident, bailifs acting on behalf of an unnamed medical equipment manufacturer, called Medifact Products ‘n’ Shit, physically removed pacemakers from three shoppers in Hull last week, in a move described as ‘heartless’ by onlookers.
‘It’s all going to the dogs’ replied a man from Barnsley, to an unasked question.