{"id":10318,"date":"2013-06-02T13:51:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T18:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10318"},"modified":"2013-06-03T22:41:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T03:41:05","slug":"apple-betrayed-by-its-own-law-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10318","title":{"rendered":"Apple, betrayed by its own law firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>FlatWorld Interactives sued Apple in April 2012, naming just about every gadget in Apple&#8217;s arsenal as a product that infringed its two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents?id=cpUVAAAAEBAJ\">related<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/USRE43318\">patents<\/a>, said to\u00a0cover swiping gestures on a touch screen. Over the next three months, the company filed similar lawsuits against <a href=\"http:\/\/ia600809.us.archive.org\/24\/items\/gov.uscourts.ded.49274\/gov.uscourts.ded.49274.1.0.pdf\">LG Electronics<\/a> and Samsung, against a wide array of smartphones made by those companies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/06\/apple-betrayed-by-its-own-law-firm\/\">Apple, betrayed by its own law firm | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FlatWorld Interactives sued Apple in April 2012, naming just about every gadget in Apple&#8217;s arsenal as a product that infringed its two related patents, said to\u00a0cover swiping gestures on a touch screen. Over the next three months, the company filed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10318\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[288,749,301],"class_list":["post-10318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-apple","tag-irony","tag-patent-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10336,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions\/10336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}