美國一男子稱iPhone抄襲自己20年前創意 索賠100億美元!
A Florida man is arguing he created the iPhone and the iPad, and wants Apple to pay him $10 billion for stealing his idea.
美國佛羅里達州一名男子日前對蘋果公司提起訴訟，要求索賠100億美元。他宣稱，iPhone和iPad都出自他的創意。Thomas Ross, the irate inventor, is suing the tech giant, citing his sketches from 1992 as evidence that he was the revolutionary genius behind the iPhone — not Steve Jobs.
這位名爲托馬斯·羅斯的憤怒的發明者正在對科技巨頭蘋果公司提起訴訟。他拿出了1992年的手繪圖紙，以證明發明iPhone的天才是他自己，而不是史蒂夫·喬布斯。The drawings, which were sketched 15 years before the iPhone's debut in 2007, bear some resemblance to Apple's device; it's a rectangle with a screen on it. By those standards, Ross could have also claimed to have invented the Kindle, the personal digital assistant and the Nintendo DS.
這些圖紙是在15年前繪製的，早於2007年問世的iPhone。圖紙上的矩形設備帶有一個屏幕，和蘋果公司的產品有些相似。按照這些標準，羅斯也可以聲稱自己發明了Kindle，個人數據輔助裝置和任天堂DS遊戲機。
Ross pitched these as "electronic reading devices" in his 1992 patent request, which was abandoned in 1995 after he failed to pay the application fee.
1992年，羅斯在專利申請書上寫的是"電子閱讀設備"。1995年，由於未能支付申請費用，這一專利申請被聲明放棄。"The device, constituting the invention, is a computerized, electronic reading device, the purpose of which is to provide an alternative to paper-based print-media such as books, magazines, manuscripts and news media," Ross wrote in his patent request.
"該發明是一款用電腦處理的電子閱讀設備，其目的在於取代書籍、雜誌、手稿和新聞媒體等紙質印刷媒體，"羅斯在專利申請書中寫道。The lawsuit, uncovered by MacRumors, claimed his idea was the original. He's demanding Apple destroy all "copies and knock-offs" that the company created.
羅斯在知名蘋果論壇MacRumors上提出訴訟，聲稱自己是最初發明者，要求蘋果公司銷燬該公司所有的"複製品和仿製品"。In March 2015, Ross sent a cease and desist demand to Apple CEO Tim Cook, claiming the company has been stealing his design.
2015年3月，羅斯曾給蘋果公司首席執行官蒂姆·庫克發了一份終止要求，聲稱蘋果公司一直在盜取自己的設計成果。Apple's lawyer reached back to Ross' attorney and said the company was "confused" about his claims, according to court documents. "Any pursuit of claims against Apple in light of these facts would be baseless and objectively unreasonable," Apple legal counsel Jeffrey Lasker wrote in response.
根據法庭文件顯示，蘋果公司的律師回覆羅斯的律師稱，蘋果公司對他的索賠要求困惑不已。蘋果公司的法律顧問傑弗裏·拉斯科在迴應中寫道："這些針對蘋果公司的索賠證據毫無根據，完全不切實際"。Ross claims Apple has caused him "great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money," and is asking for more than $10 billion in the lawsuit, as well as 1.5% of all Apple's sales as part of his royalties.
羅斯聲稱，蘋果公司對自己造成了"無法挽回的巨大傷害，這種傷害是無法用金錢來賠償和衡量的"。他要求蘋果公司索賠100億美元，並在未來的銷售收入中分成1.5%。
