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Motorola Scores Patent Wins Over Microsoft, Apple
tlhIngan writes "This week is Motorola's lucky week; they've won twice in two separate patent suits. First, an ITC judge has ruled that Microsoft's Xbox 360 has violated 4 of 5 patents related to h.264. This is just a preliminary ruling (PDF) and both Microsoft and Motorola will face an ITC panel later this year. In the other case, the ITC judge has ruled Apple violates a 3G patent, one that a German court ruled that Apple didn't violate earlier this year. "
Then the patent is invalid.
The world is ill-served by "imaginary Property"..
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
...violated 4 of 5 patents related to h.264
So this is the next standard for video on the web they're talking about?
Hello, Obama? Anyone home? There's a campaign donation in it for you from a few big tech luminaries, I'm pretty sure.
Sadly, that's not correct... most "big tech luminaries" happily use patents as cudgels to prevent little guys from entering their staked-out territories, or to push out anyone who gets in their way.
I'm not seeing any big tech corporation wanting to remove what is arguably becoming their biggest (and still legal) weapon to fend off or tame the competition.
After all, look at how much money Microsoft has managed to score from 'selling' Android to the manufacturers so far...
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
How can anyone hope to abide by copyright rules when even the courts can't sort out the mess!
Because as it turns out, German and American courts abide by different laws.
Maybe Microsoft and Apple should not have started the war by suing Android manufacturers.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
It's amazing how much the moral and ethical standards of Microsoft and Apple have converged, and it is not because Microsoft improved.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Today Iridium is a healthy business with nearly half a million subscribers. Motorola may have got that one wrong, but not very far wrong. You know who really deserves to crater as a company for bad management? Microsoft. Kept going only by illegal monopoly control of PC manufacturers and evil software lock-in of the kind that got IBM sued nearly into oblivion in the eighties.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
FRAND is really about non-discrimination. I can't force vastly different terms on a company just because I don't want to compete against them , for example. Usually, FRAND has some sort of patent cross-licensing involved with a small payment attached. The benefit to the original patent holder is that they gain security against being sued by their competitors. It is supposed to ensure that companies compete on products and not with lawyers over competing patents. I think the status quo has changed so rapidly with smartphones, tablets, etc. that the system has just broken down. If you are a company like Apple or Microsoft, without a lot of relevant IP to cross-license, then should you pay more than companies that have cross-licensed? If so, how much more? That is what many of these cases are about.
Microsoft shaking down Android manufacturers with its most probably bogus software patents says that you are incorrect about Microsoft improving at all.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Usually, FRAND has some sort of patent cross-licensing involved with a small payment attached. The benefit to the original patent holder is that they gain security against being sued by their competitors.
Oh, how that smells like cartel.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.