>Florida resident Thomas S. Ross has filed a lawsuit against Apple this week, claiming that the iPhone, iPad, and iPod infringe upon his 1992 invention of a hand-drawn "Electronic Reading Device" (ERD). The court filing claims the plaintiff was "first to file a device so designed and aggregated," nearly 15 years before the first iPhone.
>Between May 23, 1992 and September 10, 1992, Ross designed three hand-drawn technical drawings of the device, primarily consisting of flat rectangular panels with rounded corners that "embodied a fusion of design and function in a way that never existed prior to 1992."
>While the plaintiff claims that he continues to experience "great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money," he has demanded a jury trial and is seeking restitution no less than $10 billion and a royalty of up to 1.5% on Apple's worldwide sales of infringing devices.
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/28/florida-man-sues-apple-1992-invention/
>>55301060
>Florida Man
>>55301060
Who cares about this guy's little drawing if he never actually realized the product? Patents are fucking dumb.
>>55301060
Apex kek.
Kubrick and Clarke should sue everybody
>>55301060
>10 billion
Just ask for half a billion and 3% of Apple worldwide sales on all future devices, you fucking idiot. That number will get deflated below that because of his greasy Floridian greed.
Floridaman has a proven track record of victory. I'd take that case.
>>55301152
>"Just" ask for 3% of Apples worldwide sales on all future devices
>Fucking idiot
>>55301165
:^) You're just mad you didn't think of it first.
>>55301060
>Ross applied for a utility patent to protect his invention in November 1992, but the application was declared abandoned in April 1995 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after he failed to pay the required application fees.
Sucks for him. He could have been the next Robert Kearns:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kearns
>Kearns won one of the best known patent infringement cases against Ford Motor Company (1978–1990) and a case against Chrysler Corporation (1982–1992). Having invented and patented the intermittent windshield wiper mechanism, which was useful in light rain or mist, he tried to interest the "Big Three" auto makers in licensing the technology. They all rejected his proposal, yet began to install intermittent wipers in their cars, beginning in 1969.
You must be crazy in the head if you think anyone will award you money for that.
Reminder that if apple sued someone for copying its 2007 drawing (on the right in op picture) it would maybe be a win, but 100% up to the a legit court case.
But this man drawing has less value, am i right?
>>55301060
As someone who has looked at/read hundreds if not thousands of patents, those drawings are fucking laughable.
>>55302279
he didn't patent it, tard
>>55301138
Is that a sticker in the lower right corner?
![2001.A.Space.Odyssey.1968.1080p.BluRay.x264-DON.mkv_snapshot_01.00.05_[2016.06.28_14.07.39].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/gLtE992.jpg "2001.A.Space.Odyssey.1968.1080p.BluRay.x264-DON.mkv_snapshot_01.00.05_[2016.06.28_14.07.39].jpg")
>>55302307
No thats the IBM logo
Only in America are these kind of retarded things are legal.
>>55302457
Damn I need that setup
>>55302803
A tablet and a food tray? Shit anon I was rocking that setup in high school
>>55302831
The food in that pic though actually seems decent though unlike school food
>>55302844
How? It looks like it's just piles of paste. I'd definitely take my old school's food over that.
>>55302866
I would have taken paste over the shit we got without a doubt
>>55302880
Must've sucked. The food we got was actually edible
>>55301138
what is that man eating
But you can already live off meme foods anon
>>55302899
space food
>tfw went to upper middle class hs
>chef made the absolute best creamy fluffy mashed potatoes and turkey gravy with soft tender bits and chunks of turkey and a mouth watering beer batter biscuit
This is like a patent for flying cars. Nobody in 1992 thought touchscreens were realistically going to end up on consumer electronics. It's useless to "invent" shit when multiple basic components don't exist yet.
Why is it always someone from Florida?
>>55301106
this, patents shouldn't even be handed out if there's no working product.
Lawsuit is stupid. Not only did Apple patent their Newton before he did, but he also abandoned his patent. So there's nothing left to say.
