he's telling you that big-companies sink little companies while they use the law courts to determine that there was in fact no legal case to be answered.

welcome to patent litigation 101.

In the Pixel launcher which mostly will be coming with Google Pixel (Sailfish), the way to bring up the app drawer is swipe up! Coincidence?

Yep they stole that. Also the announcement has been officially confirmed for the 4th October, and not September like early reports stated.

could jolla pursue them for this? is the swipe up for drawer copyrighted?
this could be an important opportunity of advertising with name reported on journals.

Even if Jolla invented that gesture, which they didn't because old Android and even the N9 could do the same thing, who cares someone else did the same thing? If you want for Jolla to sue Google for something as simple as moving from the bottom border to bring up the list of applications, you're no better than any of the Silicon Valley giants who sue each other for everything under the sun, precisely the kinds of people you want to rid yourself of by supporting Jolla and Sailfish. Please don't be a hypocrite.

well, sometimes some kind of weapons are needed if you want to survive. i am not sure you can come out alive from a war with just a polite smile.
and since google is closing as much as they can..sadly it is business and market,not only passion...for all. so jolla is hypocrite for having silica closed and proprietary? no it isnt at all. they are just protecting themselves.
i dont know if someone invented it before, but it was a great idea.

You can't fight a giant head-on. You can only try to be(come) a better giant.

bah, for me it is very good as ideal, but a bit too much irrealistic...

The phones are also rumoured to have *spits*, iPhone style pricing.

Its a freaking Android phone why care!?