Tim Cook, Apple CEO: “Patent Wars are Hemorrhoids”
It was in these words ( Pain in the Ass ) that Apple's top manager described during the All Things Digital conference patent proceedings in the IT field. According to Tim Cook, the entire system of registration and protection of intellectual property is rotten through and through. Cook notes that this is clearly evident in all cases where companies are trying to sue competitors by applying patents used in the field of industrial standards.
Tim, answering journalists' questions, said:
The overwhelming majority of companies suing us use the patents necessary for standards, and this is fundamentally wrong. It is in this aspect that the entire patent system is flawed. Such patents must be licensed under fair and reasonable terms . (Tim means FRAND )
Apple does not pursue anyone using patents that affect industry standards, because we consider this to be fundamentally wrong .
Based on these words, it can be concluded that the position of the current Apple CEO is different from the position of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Let me remind you that Jobs stated that he categorically does not accept the copying of his company's products, and on the Android operating system in general declared a thermonuclear war, refusing the Google deductions offered by Eric Schmidt. Steve even claimed he would spend the last cent of Apple’s available cash reserves to completely destroy Android.
Tim Cook has a not so radical opinion, sticking to a much more moderate course, although he nevertheless notes that "the worst thing that can happen with an engineer (Tim means a computing engineer, design engineer and other positions that we may call ourselves as a developer, programmer, designer, interface designer and others) , this is a case in which you give life to some kind of invention, and then someone copies it and glues your brand to it. We just do not want people to copy us. Let them come up and invent themselves, we do not just working and not covering everything . "
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UPD ^ 1. Changed the title at the request of habrauzerov.
Tim, answering journalists' questions, said:
The overwhelming majority of companies suing us use the patents necessary for standards, and this is fundamentally wrong. It is in this aspect that the entire patent system is flawed. Such patents must be licensed under fair and reasonable terms . (Tim means FRAND )
Apple does not pursue anyone using patents that affect industry standards, because we consider this to be fundamentally wrong .
Based on these words, it can be concluded that the position of the current Apple CEO is different from the position of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Let me remind you that Jobs stated that he categorically does not accept the copying of his company's products, and on the Android operating system in general declared a thermonuclear war, refusing the Google deductions offered by Eric Schmidt. Steve even claimed he would spend the last cent of Apple’s available cash reserves to completely destroy Android.
Tim Cook has a not so radical opinion, sticking to a much more moderate course, although he nevertheless notes that "the worst thing that can happen with an engineer (Tim means a computing engineer, design engineer and other positions that we may call ourselves as a developer, programmer, designer, interface designer and others) , this is a case in which you give life to some kind of invention, and then someone copies it and glues your brand to it. We just do not want people to copy us. Let them come up and invent themselves, we do not just working and not covering everything . "
All Things Digital Materials
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UPD ^ 1. Changed the title at the request of habrauzerov.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/144863/
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