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Kellen

It’s not often that you get to merge personal passions into a professional life, but that’s what Kellen did when he launched Droid Life in 2009. After working years of unsatisfying jobs in the medical and property management fields, he took a risk to try and create an online community while playing with the coolest gadgets on the planet each day, a risk that has turned out to be incredibly rewarding. Outside of Droid Life, Kellen is your typical Portlander who drinks way too much good beer, complains often about the Trail Blazers, and can be found out on the streets for a run, rain or shine.

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  • As they say, It doesn’t matter who you are today, because tomorrow is another day. What we are seeing is a highly inflated poor excuse for an innovative company, harassing the little guy(looking for a chance to exist) so that only THEY can eat. The superstar Tech company cannot be conquered by outsiders(Google, Samsung, Nokia), it will implode from within. Just look at the Romans.

    That being said, I’m already noticing a change in the weather at Cupertino. What do you think?

  • Rumor has it Apple is going to patent the patent system. Anyone caught seeking a patent will be sued for breaching Apple’s patent on patents.

  • Sorry to put the brakes on the Apple hate mail – but doesn’t this open up foreign copycats to stealing more IP from an American company? Please correct/enlighten me but in our rush to heap more S#$7 on Apple isn’t this bad for American business? Personally, I don’t want to see Apple fail – I want to see Apple/Google/Microsoft in a fierce technology war where they are all successful to some degree and we benefit from killer products. Right now, I’m firmly in the Google camp but will follow the leader in terms of technology and innovation.

    • You can’t steal something that doesn’t belong to someone. Apple has been abusing the patent system for years; basically patenting things that either already existed (prior art) or were iterative and obvious (also ineligible for a patent). These are not in need of protection. What the USPTO did here was essentially say, “Uh, yeah; we never ought to have granted that. Sorry.” They did not say that no one has any right to IP; just that Apple’s IP, in this case, was illegitimate.

  • Love to see these crazy wide open patents being reversed. Should have never been granted in in the first place. Patents are there for protection against a very specific design, not a basic idea.

  • Kellex your a turd.. This site conveniently forgets 5 – 10 android stories a week but you post this. Your an undercover apple fanboy running a droid site.

  • This is interesting. Didn’t Judge Koh just release a statement indicating that although Samsung devices won’t be banned in the U.S., her original ruling that patents were violated still stands, which included “pinch-to-zoom”?

    Hmmm….

    • Yes but that was simply that the a patent was in fact infringed on, this is completely different, the patent it self is not valid

    • Wait, the patents in the Judge Koh Apple/Samsung case referred to design patents, not software patents…………….. Correct???????

  • Speaking of pinch to zoom, I’m experiencing a delay of multitouch recognition on my devices running Jelly Bean. Anyone else with this issue and/or how to fix it? It’s a real turn off from my GS3 and Nexus.

    • I get a delay when in settings of my phone, using stock JB, every time I go into apps and force close trivial apps and games, the whole system freezes for a minute or so.

      • Do NOT force close apps in Android. Android has a very sophisticated app management system that controls how apps are running. When you force close an app…it interferes with the algorithms that control the operation of that function. For all Android users….please quit force closing apps.

  • I love reading the apple fanboys responses, most of them are complaining about how since the USPTO issued the patents they shouldn’t be allowed to invalidate them. Try using the same argument with prohibition.

  • It would just reduce the amount Samsung owns at best, all the phones were hit for 3+ patents each

    • Definitely a reduction of the fine. It’s pretty clear that Samsung is guilty of ripping off some of Apple’s design elements but software patents are a complete joke and should be dismissed.

      On a side note, I can’t help but feel that Samsung’s lawyers screwed up pretty badly by not dismissing that jackhole Velvin Hogan.

        • Probably done on purpose as Samsung could have been going for the end game: invalidation of the patents, not a ruling saying they didn’t infringe. Basically, it’s no issue that they infringed on a patent if that patent is invalid. Much stronger victory, here.

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