After allegedly being burned by Microsoft in the 80s, Steve Jobs decided to patent near everything the company is currently working on, or plans to in the future, including ephemeral design guidelines. That strategy worked well in the trial against Samsung, but it's now Apple's turn to taste the bitter medicine called US patent system. A judge just ordered it to pay $506 million in patent infringement fines to the licensing department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The lawsuit was filed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, citing a 1998 patent for improving ...
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