I agree, realneil, that «[t]his lawsuit crap is getting old». But the operative sentence in the article is the following : «🅰ccording to swissinfo.ch, the railway clock is widely licensed and used
for timepieces of all shapes and sizes, but Apple apparently didn’t
bother to pay the fee for its use». This is so typically Apple - fail to pay for using the patent-protected designs, techniques, etc, of others, but sue everyone and his grandmother for infringing upon Apple's own patents and design registrations. This practice came up in the recent Samsung/Apple dispute, but the hometown court - both judge and jury - choose to ignore Apple's infringements of Samsung's patents. I do hope the Swiss Railway nail Apple on this one :
For ’tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petar. And ’t shall go hard,
But I will delve one yard below their mines,
And blow them at the moon.
Henri
