Intellectual property: to better understand the judicial review of Apple - III

If intellectual property protects intellectual works that exist by themselves, industrial property; it is committed to protecting the products of intellectual activity that can be produced industrially.  This first type of products of intellectual activity is the invention, creation designed to solve a technical problem. The inventor may well decide to use the trade secret, which can give him a monopoly until a competitor does not happen to the task. The patent has been designed as a regulatory element; a form of encouragement to private innovation should eventually become public. In exchange for the release of its invention, the creator gets protection - a patent - providing it can enjoy the fruits of his work and punishing the copy.

Of course, the patent is framed: the work submitted must be new (private), inventive (non-obvious and unique solution to a problem) and applicable (technical and industrial). If these conditions are met, the inventor gets a limited monopoly in space (the country where the patent is valid) and time (usually 20 years) of his invention at the end of this monopoly, innovation falls into the public domain and may contribute to the common good.

Intellectual property: to better understand the judicial review of Apple - II

The literary and artistic property protects the creations themselves and for themselves: a book, musical composition, a table exists in them and is protected, automatically, without formality - as long as the creation or original. In France, this protection is called copyright law (and rights related to copyright, specific to certain types of productions: the right of performers, rights of producers of phonograms and videograms, and the right of producers of databases data). Copyright consists of two types of powers, property rights and human rights moral. The open the possibility of commercial exploitation: they give the author an exclusive right to the manner of publication, reproduction, adaptation and compensation of his works for a limited time, while protecting it from copying.

Intellectual property: to better understand the judicial review of Apple - I

Motorola v Apple, Samsung v Apple v Apple HTC, Apple and others v: the small world of mobile computing uses the courts as others used the playground, is castagna to outdo, until sometimes to forget the reason for the dispute. Patents, registered designs, injunctions, appeals, motions, etc.. : Jargon sometimes prevents a clear understanding of these cases. We offer a development summary.

Logic Pro 9 and MainStage landed on the Mac App Store

After Aperture and Final Cut Pro X is the turn of Logic Pro made its appearance on the Mac App Store. A finish that changes quite a bit in the range of CAM software from Apple.

On the Mac App Store, Logic Pro 9 is on sale at a price of € 149.99 or € 50 less than the Express version. His companion for live performance, MainStage, is also arriving on the Mac App Store. It is priced at € 23.99. As it has done before for its other software suites, Apple opted for a sale "to cut" and used it to cut prices.

The History of the iPod

2011 marks the 10 year anniversary of the iPod, an incredible music player created by Apple. With the earliest mp3 players being of subpar quality, Apple founder Steve Jobs wanted to create something that would be truly revolutionary. In 2000, Jobs envisioned the iPod and had his company's programmers get to work on his vision.

The iPod first saw the light of day on October 23, 2001 as Steve Jobs introduced it at Apple's headquarters. It carried a capacity of 5GB of space, which held up to 1,000 songs. It was a simple looking white device with a grayscale screen and entered the market at $399.

The next summer, the second generation iPod was introduced in two versions and had a storage capability of either 10 or 20GB. The scroll wheel was slightly different than on the original device, having been redesigned to be touch sensitive. Additionally, the iPod now had Windows compatibility, which introduced it to a whole new group of people who did not own a Mac. However, these users were only able to get their music on their iPod via Music Match, a program that converted tracks for the Windows environment. It also saw the hold switch redesigned and was synced via FireWire.