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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.
Strangely enough, Sendo is also reporting this.
Mobile-phone upstart Sendo lashed out with another lawsuit...
...lashed out... another lawsuit..?
Doesn't that sound a little like biased reporting to anybody else?
Or is it just this Orange one? Was n't one of the complaints Sendo had was that basically MS was taking all of it's good ideas and giving them to Orange (which is also tied into MS). Of course MS had a cross licensing thing with Sendo, but I wonder if this patent was part of that deal?
Maybe Sendo found an area where they did n't get completely screwed over by MS?
Someone should develop a "Free Patent Foundation" - with parallels to the GNU, but for intellectual discoveries, inventions, etc. Though these wouldn't make the developers a lot of money, it could really benefit humankind.
Nope, 'coz Sendo had an agreement where they shared their technology with MS in exchange for access to MS's OS technology. Sendo made the mistake of agreeing that if they ever went under that their tech automatically got handed over to MS so it was actually in MS's interest that they went under. Sendo basically asserted that MS was not keeping up their end of the bargain whilst Orange got all the good stuff and help they were meant to be getting.
Please keep in mind: This is a british patent suit.
Not everywere in the world the patent system is as f*ckt up as in the USA. And, speaking for germany, not erverywere it is expensive to fight against false patents. Not Yet. I know, some people are working on it.