In the early nineties , Android caput honcho Andy Rubin knead as a lowly - grade Apple engineer . And that , allot Apple ’s latest ITC filing , is grounds enough for them to potentially block Android in the US .
It vocalise far - fetched ; the mass of Android ’s foundational workplace was nail in the mid - to - tardy 90 , when Rubin was at General Magic and Danger ( the company Google finally bought , chiefly for the operating system ) . But while extreme , the reasoning may not be as softheaded as it sounds , according to FOSS Patents :
Apple now asserts — in a filing with the ITC , which means Apple has a sound obligation to make truthful agency of fact — that Rubin ’s superiors at Apple were the artificer of that realtime API patent and he worked for them at the very meter they made that invention . He worked as a downcast - point locomotive engineer while the artificer were senior people . It ’s potential that he then bring to the implementation of the lay claim invention .
The deduction of this — other than that Apple is being even more aggressive than previously imagined in its suitsagainst HTCand other Android OEMs — are that if Apple were to sue Google directly over this fussy patent , the could conceivably get an injunction . Against the total platform . As well as scores , and lots , and lot , of money .
That ’s another case somewhere further down the line , if it happens at all . For now , just roll in the hay that Apple ’s bringing in the heavy effectual artillery — and they might just have a power point . [ FOSS Patents ]
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