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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.
Hey Orangeo, Sendo your casho to uso!
Sendo *must* be a subsidiary of SCO...
Wouldn't it save bandwidth if you reported the companies that aren't suing each other?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
We have tried to solve the matter in an amicable way,â said Hugh Brogan, Sendoâ(TM)s chief executive officer.
Translated: We tried to extort millions of dollars before filing suit, and they said no. Reminds me of IBM's past amicable actions.
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
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.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
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?
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.
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Sendo has tech sharing agreement with MS.
Orange has tech sharing agreement with MS.
MS hands over Sendo tech to Orange holds back obligations to Sendo.
Sendo gives up on it's own phone with MS software due to above.
Sendo sues Orange for patent infringement.
So this is n't your average money grabbing patent suit.
Actually, this wasn't. They had an agreement with MS to take this product to market. Unfortunately they signed a contract with a suicide clause which indicated that if they went under, MS got all their goods. Of course, Microsoft was supposed to pay them to keep them from going under...
So naturally Microsoft didn't pay them, they went under, MS took their stuff, and Sendo sued MS over breach of contract.
Now, at this point, the rights to the technology should be up in the air. If Microsoft broke the terms of the contract by not paying Sendo, then the contract is void and the IP is still Sendo's. But Microsoft, being the arrogant bastard it is, didn't wait for the lawsuit to end, and assumed that they could dole out the big bucks to make sure the suit ended in their favor. So they gave Sendo's IP to Orange to take Sendo's product to market.
So, yes, this is a case of "I will sue anyone who does what my patent describes", but for once, they're justified in biting back.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
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.
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