Sendo Sues Orange for Patent Infringement

captnjameskirk writes "RCR Wireless News is reporting that Sendo is suing European carrier Orange for patent infringement involving the circuit board design within the phones. As the article points out, Sendo also sued Microsoft for allegedly stealing their technology for use in the Smartphone OS." Back in January, we also had some more information on the case between Sendo and Microsoft.

Comments

MS is going to payoff Sendo, right?

[MongooseCN]

MS paid SCO for the license to use some vague part of SCO's unix code. So does this mean MS will pay Sendo for directly using Sendo's technology in its own OS?

hope they get a bunch

[afidel]

I hope they get as much blood as they can from MS and a crapload from Orange as well if Orange knew that the stuff they were getting from MS was sendo's property. This was dirty business at its worst.

Wait two seconds before you spote off

[kramer2718]

I know that for many Slashdot readers, the reaction over a patent lawsuit defaults to "those bastards are filing frivolous lawsuits," but wait a minute before you badmouth sendo.

The article said nothing beyond that the claim regards the design of an internal circuit board. Sendo's claim might be legit' it might be BS. We have no idea which at this point.

If anyone actually knows anything substatial about the claim, please enlighten us all.

Re:No friends

[gilesjuk]

They're small and signed a rather silly contract (meaning M$ pockets all their IP if they go bust). Ideal company for Microsoft to run down and swallow up. Making friends has nothing to do with it, they just picked the wrong business partner.

Re:Stupid patent system

[squiggleslash]

In what way does it sound like that?

Sendo is teetering on the brink of bankruptsy after developing a mobile phone with Microsoft which could have been a viable money-spinner had it not been for Microsoft repeatedly, and almost certainly deliberately, stalling Sendo. Microsoft had made an agreement with Sendo that should either party go bust, the other would pick up the IP rights associated with the project.

Sendo is suing Orange because Orange is using technology Sendo invented and paid a fortune developing. Sendo has every right to do so. Orange has the technology, almost certainly, because Microsoft gave it to them. Orange needs to be slapped down for taking that technology, and they in turn need to slap down Microsoft for, yet again, another obvious case of dirty, rotten, dishonest business practices.

I say go Sendo. They deserve to win. They deserve to recoup their losses on this project from those who've taken their work.