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Microsoft Wants $15 Per Android Smartphone
sfcrazy writes "Microsoft Corp has demanded that Samsung Electronics Co Ltd pay $15 for each smartphone handset it makes based on Google Inc's Android operating system. The software giant claims to own a wide range of patents used in the mobile platform. From the article: 'Samsung would likely seek to lower the payment to about $10 in exchange for a deeper alliance with Microsoft for the U.S. company's Windows platform, the Maeil Business Newspaper quoted unnamed industry officials as saying.'"
You, Microsoft has a huge legal division expert in the following subjects
- Barratry
- Intimidation
- Patent trolling
ftfy
Trolling is a art,
How about Jobs deliberately misquoting Samsung even after Samsung had publicly corrected it? http://blogs.forbes.com/elizabethwoyke/2011/03/02/oops-steve-jobs-misquotes-samsung-at-ipad-2-event/ How about Jobs laughing at their competitors and calling them copy cats? http://crave.cnet.co.uk/laptops/steve-jobs-slams-android-samsung-and-ipad-2-rivals-as-copycats-50003016/ AND then going ahead and blatantly copying Android notification system. Yep, year of the copy cat it is. Except this time it's Apple doing the copying.
The fact that something is re-invented multiple times in isolation is the very definition of obvious.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Patents are mentioned and refuted in Barnes & Noble's response ( http://www.groklaw.net/pdf2/MSvB&Nanswer.pdf ).
They include:
(in parenthesis: page and paragraph in document where validity of patent is put in question)
Patent 5,778,372: "Remote Retrieval and Display Management of Electronic Document with Incorporated Images". This refers to loading the text of a web-page before the background image. (page 16, paragraph 33)
Patent 6,339,780: "Loading Status in a Hypermedia Browser Having a Limited Available Display Area". This basically treats putting the "Loading" message inside the page area instead of the toolbar. (page 16, paragraph 32)
Patent 5,889,522: "System Provided Child Window Controls". (page 17, paragraph 34)
Patent 6,891,551: "Selection Handles in Editing Electronic Documents". (page 17, paragraph 35)
Patent 6,957,233: "Method and Apparatus for Capturing and Rendering Annotations for Non-Modifiable Electronic Content". (page 17, paragraph 36)
Patents 5,579,517 and 5,758,352. Dealing with file name compatibility between different OS (page 14, paragraph 29)
Patents 6,791,536 and 6,897,853. Simulating mouse inputs without a mouse (page 15, paragraph 30)
Patent 5,652,913. Shared data structure for storing input/output data (age 16, paragraph 31).
Why? It's a fact, patents hinder innovation -- history shows that.
Circumcision is child abuse.