Comments on: Android Data: Google Strikes Back!

By: James

James — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:58:51 +0000

Perhaps a few of you clowns that prematurely comment on this stuff should actually look into what occurred. The guy had a product, renewed his trademark, and owned it. Plain and simple. This is why people get copyrights and trademarks (he did not get a patent which a few of you write as misinformation). Stealing is stealing… and the hammer will fall on the giant in this case.

By: sign

sign — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:13:31 +0000

even this stupid company called AOL is suing everyone with the name “ad” in their domain name.

There’s a point where ridiculous BS is just too much.

By: stoggy

stoggy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:49:22 +0000

Actually this is kind of funny.

Google threatens to sue that guy that is releases his own android images which include the google apis. Which have been released in open source. violating the open source copy rights and trademarks.

Now they turn around and try to sue some guy for trying to inforce his copyrights, trademarks, and other such… I hope the Google lawyers see the duplicity in this before its to late.

Otherwise I hope these google lawyers get charged with fraud, disbarred and imprisoned.

By: AGx-07_162

AGx-07_162 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:38:37 +0000

I dont think we should be allowed to patent words without having some kind of buisness or product behind it. Whether he has trademark protection on it or not, he does not own, run or produce anything that uses or makes “Android Data”. At this point its just two words. Some laws are so stupid. Its all about money these days.

By: Continuous

Continuous — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:27:15 +0000

Hey guys – it’s called business – that’s what these companies HAVE to do. Think of it as the equivalent of a skirmish – the forerunner to “COMMERCE WARS” (Copyright 2009 ITsManaged Pty. Ltd..) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

By: furf

furf — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:38:49 +0000

I highly doubt Google will lose. Their lawyers are scary.

By: RobotJaxxon

RobotJaxxon — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:06:56 +0000

I suggest you change “a patent” to “trademark protection” in the 2nd sentence, as Paul suggested. That inaccuracy makes this entire article deeply confusing to anyone vaguely familiar with patents and trademarks. I ended up reading two other articles to get this straightened out for myself (one being Rob’s article from May which is a good overview for this article: http://phandroid.com/2009/05/03/android-trademark-lawsuit-google-oha-sued/ ).

By: Grantina

Grantina — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:30:00 +0000

… not one that couldn’t be easily taken care of by a “freak accident”. Love is a battlefield.

By: sign

sign — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:25:08 +0000

this is just a sign of the times. sue sue sue. can’t work hard to make a buck? just sue someone.

the legal system is only going to get worse. the sky is falling.

By: dan

dan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:17:24 +0000

how can a suit like this even get into court? unless i’m not understanding something…his patent was for “android data” and google is just for “android” OS isn’t it? I mean if thats the case then Star Trek should be suing this guy because if i recall…Data is an android……i really have no idea how patents and the legal system works but i find it sad that people try to take the easy way out and refuse to earn their money….i hope this guy loses in court

By: Justin2

Justin2 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:56:25 +0000

Ok, so trademark protection. His trademark was still expired, so at the time of the release of android, he didn’t own the trademark anymore. He shouldn’t have a leg to stand on…

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:36:17 +0000

He filed for trademark protection, not a patent.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:29:32 +0000

Jon you are correct. I bet he thought that one of the above compaines would just settle out of court. Glad Google is striking back.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:56:51 +0000

just Droid from what I understand.
He is sueing cause he is greedy and saw the possibility to make a ton of money.

By: Justin2

Justin2 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:38:07 +0000

What I don’t understand is, this guy’s trademark license expired back in ‘04 or something. So if it was expired, and his company was not making anymore business during this time (way before android was even released, let alone announced) then what legal ground does he have to stand on? His trademark lapsed, and yeah google didn’t try to get the trademark themselves, but if his “patent”, “copyright”, or “trademark” was expired, then there shouldn’t be anything that he can do. (Plus he didn’t say or do anything till he saw that it was going to make lot’s of money.) ((Plus Plus: Doesn’t George Lucas own the copyright to android, or is that just Droid?))