Apple isn't using the fraudulent IP offshoring tactics many multinationals use to evade tax. Those are the bad guys, not Apple.
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See: http://www.eisneramper.com/ip-migration-inversions-tp-blog-0816/ … This is a crooked practice that's unfair to taxpayers and honest companies. Apple does not do it.
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Perhaps, but legally so, under governing Irish and EU law, which this ruling purports to rewrite after-the-fact.
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Difference: Apple's strategy involves no subterfuge, unlike offshoring IP at a tiny fraction of the value implied by stock price
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But without patent protection, nobody except big corp can execute them, since they can outspeed anyone to market.
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So why work in something original at all. After a few years some corp will see it and outspeed you to market.
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The corruption era has one direction. Down. Until we hit the bottom or someone stops it. This is the dilemma of our times.
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I wish I didn't agree with that!
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but then you read this and don't want to anymore https://medium.com/cuepoint/sightsound-versus-apple-and-the-death-squad-for-patents-fe51cc4f9239#.ytg509p6y …
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Summary: due process resulted in a ruling invalidating these patents due to prior art.
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