Is this reported right? Why would the guy filing for patent infringement be filing a class action suit? I think this is worded wrong.

Those are not receipts but rather the order confirmation web page. It behaves as an invoice and invoices can have billing address information, digits from the card and credit card expiry dates on them.

That information is used for verification and fraud protection ironically.

Take a look at any online invoice from any store, hotel or travel service.

We need to record the names of these people and their lawyers and then investigate whether their fraudulent lawsuit was a method for stock price manipulation. Let's file a class action lawsuit against them.

Actually... apple has had the LED indicator since 1999 or so with the introduction of the iBooks with the 45 watt yo-yo adapter. To be totally clear, i don't remember if these had indicator lights in them, but i know they are similar to the ones with the lights in them that may or may not have first appeared with the white iBooks later on. This later iteration of the DC plug came in 2001 i believe. So, even if this guy had a patent, apple had it out first. Too bad so sad. Anyways, who says the one apple has is anything like the one in the claimed patent? I call BS.

Not to mention that there is no competing product that is losing market because of apple that the guy makes.

A suite on the crappy magsafe adapter croaking after a year? That's one I'd like to see. My "improved" adapter hits the trash this week after- 15months? Meanwhile my old iBook adapter soldiers on after 7 years.

I love the e-mail receipt feature.. It makes it easier for me to keep a record of my transaction, without keeping bits of paper around. Their lawsuit is BS, because:

1. It's optional. Noone forces you to give your e-mail address or take that option. You can choose a standard paper receipt.

2. No personal information is divulged. Mine has my name, my e-mail address (it's an e-mail after all, that's already available), my credit card type, and the last four digits of the CC number. Nothing to enable "identity theft".



The bad thing is, even a BS lawsuit like this will impede other businesses from trying new things like this.

roehlstation cites Apple's first use of a battery indicator LED in 2002 (first white iBook), but I recall a similar indicator on the original Clamshell iBook (1999) and Lombard PowerBook G3 (also 1999).

If I'm mistaken, or if anyone else remembers an earlier one, please correct me.

In any case, I'd say that if this other guy patented in 2004, his lawsuit is without merit.

i've just opened roughly 100 of my 374 receipts, all show the same as the other 7 confirmed. gawd testudo, you're one obnoxious little sh&t. give it a rest.

I just have to say, I just checked 7 receipts from Jan 2006 until last week, and they only show the last 4 of the credit card number...

once again, proving he is an a**.

these are people relating their own experiences, not setting up a legal precedent.

doofus.



No, other people making up their own stories. If you READ the other posts, they aren't saying just "Mine don't show it!", they're also saying "Therefore, this is a money-grab phony lawsuit!"

I like it how someone argues that "Hey, I don't see it, therefore it never occured to anyone!". Why not dig up the plaintiffs' evidence and use that to prove them wrong.

But, no, I keep forgetting, since they're suing apple they must be wrong.

Actually, the Clamshell iBooks had a light on the port itself not on the end of the Power Adapter. The PowerBooks of that era didn't have a charge indicator other than the one on the battery that you can press.