The production company to continue combating copyright Apple iPhone app-SmartCompany.com.au over

Patrick Stafford court battle between the Australian production company Jigsaw entertainment and tech giant Apple unofficial Chopper Reid-app more than continued this morning, the instructions, the hearing takes place under the federal judges in Sydney this morning after the mediation between the parties failed to resolve the issue.

Today, at the hearing at the end of the representative of Malta to the end of the second session of the month.

Jigsaw Entertainment CEO Nick Murray told the SmartCompany, he is still fully committed to the trial and will continue its "moral crusade" Apple takes responsibility for the work of the alleged intellectual property infringement.

"We are not a huge company, but we are not small either, and prepared the Apple ignores the other people and of our property rights, then the fact that," Murray says.

"We are you meant to respect the quality of Apple's products-which we should be, they are great – but they had the ability to take at least a cursory Glimpse of what is going on," he says.

Apple contacted a comment this morning, but did not respond before publishing.

2010 case began when I discovered that the Jigsaw killer, a 14-year-old app developer by the infringed their copyright in the middle.

The application uses the character soundbites Chopper Reid-Ronnie John for half an hour. Jigsaw contact Apple, saying it violated the copyright of the application, but did not receive a response to several weeks.

However, Murray says he knows, Apple has been detected in the communication because the app-developer father to apologise to the situation of the enterprise as a whole. The application is taken from the store.

But the Jigsaw says, this is not good enough and wants to take responsibility to the Apple application can reside in the site so long.

"It was for sale for weeks, and it sold enough to reach the top five in Australia, the State-of-the-art apps" Murray says. "The injury, which is why it is very important to us. The application was poorly reviewed, since it was returned with the pinched sounds. "

"We had two heated directions hearings — they brought in either the QCs who we thought was over the top. We have the growth companies in the Court of first instance ordered the mediation, and now we go back to the consultations and exchanges of shares concerning companies of different orders are made. "

Murray says the company must now "really pissed" and says Apple has an obligation to ensure, in each of the apps in the store does not infringe any intellectual property rights.

Apple vets apps already sold in the store, but this process is mostly by ensuring satisfactory conditions with regard to each of the app with their own policies. It has shown hesitation to remove apps, which extracts the Apple's own rules – Murray says, this should be extended to cover the liabilities of a legal person.

"All they had been in dialog box, in which this had come from. They say that they have so many apps, it would be unfair for us to check that the goods. But really, I think it is too bad – they decided to put these 350 000 apps in the store. "

Therefore, we are going to pursue it ". They have reached the stage where they are really pissed us. "

Murray also alleges that Apple does not believe it has had the reputation of the company. The App itself rather poor, and Murray says, users can be believed, the application was in the official program, the company.

"But they are not trained. They are trying to block our IP has any value. And I have spoken to, including the judges of the Supreme Law of the people say is – quite unusual that IP theft occurs on its own from the source. "

"We are going to make them pay. We believe that they are responsible. Not fair, and they plan to move much of the resources in this case. "

But it is unclear how good afforded the Jigsaw is actually if the trial goes forward.

Last year, the intellectual property rights lawyer Trevor Choy said that the case was the SmartCompany fascinating, but it would be expensive to move the trial to Jigsaw.

"It is difficult to see, Apple should have been aware of the infringement of the competition rules, unless they were informed and they are still allowed it to sell. That does not appear in the case. "

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